Identifier: cabinetofnatural02phil (find matches)
Title: The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports
Year: 1830 (1830s)
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Subjects: Zoology Hunting
Publisher: Philadelphia, John Doughty
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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thiescould subsist, and which is generally deemed wholly atvariance with the canine race; in a word, the Cat.—Notto trespass further on our sporting brothers time, nor towear out the indulgence of our reader, we shall simplydetail a scene that took place at Liverpool some yearsback, the proofs of which still exist, together with the liv-ing animals which furnish the following story. An ill-fated cat fell into the hands of some juvenile ruf-fians, commencing the first stage of cruelty, which oftenleads to great crimes and to an ignominious end: the littlewretches had passed from cruelty to cruelty, alternatelystoning their victim and dragging it through a dirty poolof water, then beating and bruising it, and menacing itwith drowning. Bipeds passed by, unheeding the ago-nised animals cries of distress, which were now nearlycoming to a close with its life, when a feeling quadrupedcame forward to save it. The Dog, having contemplatedfor some time this scene of inhumanity, and barked his
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AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 205 disapprobation thereof, rushed forward upon the youngassassins, and, driving them one by one furiously off thespot, sprang to the rescue of the fainting and bleeding ani-mal, and withdrawing it from the deep ditch, bore it offin triumph to his quarters. There, extending it uponstraw, and licking it all over, he recalled the vital spark,and then, laying himself down upon it, restored it to somedegree of ease from the warmth imparted to it. Afterthis, the kind and feeling Dog fetched provision to his sickcharge, and the people of the house, inspired by the ex-ample of the minor animal, gave it warm milk. Day afterday did the Dog tend the sick object of his care, until itwas perfectly recovered, and they are both to be seen atthis day, after a long lapse of years, at the Talbot Inn,Liverpool.—These lessons from the brute creation to himwho proudly calls himself the effigy of the Divinity, arehumiliating, but may be useful to the many who needthem.—Londo

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