We are much obliged to Clara for her nice letter.
EDITOR.
DEAR MR. EDITOR:
It's Washington's Birthday, and a very gloomy day, too. I
haven't anything to do, and mamma is in a great state of things,
so I thought I would write, which I never like to do.
Well, you know there is a lot of cruelty going on all around the
world.
Just think, in the summer time, how animals suffer, poor things.
But I cannot do a thing. I just have to see and hear about it.
Now there goes a horse-car driver whipping his horse, and here's
a man pulling the reins so the poor creature's head is bent way
back and his lip bleeding. I do beg you to write something in
your paper about it, but don't say who told you to, for all the
children whom I know that get your paper would laugh at me; but
if you don't tell them they will think it all right. I'll tell
you what to write: just something to ask them to be good to
animals; and tell them some of the sufferings of animals.
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