with his kitten. He was
enjoying himself, but the kitten wasn't, for he would pick it up and
throw it across the yard, till poor pussy mewed pitifully. Now, if our
boys and girls are going to have pets, they ought to learn to treat them
very kindly, just as they would wish to be treated themselves.

You may think, perhaps, that your dog belongs to you, and for that
reason you can do with him just as you please. But do you ever stop to
consider that Rover or Don may not enjoy being kicked and beaten and
pulled about any more than you would if you were in his place? That is
something that we must think about. We might have been born helpless, in
the power of other and larger creatures. But it has pleased our Father
to make us what we are, and to give us the power over his other
creatures, and for that reason we should be very kind and gentle with
them. He wishes us to be merciful, and so we have his promise that those
who are merciful shall have mercy shown them, if ever they come to be in
need of it. And then, that it may be very plain to us, he tells us that
"the merciful man is merciful to his beast." That means that he is kind
and gentle to all the creatures that he has anything to do with, to his
horse and his cow, to his dog, and even to the tiny kitten that ties
itself up into a ball, chasing its own tail. Isn't this promise worth
trying for?

[Entered at the Post Office at Elgin, Ill., as Second Class Mail
Matter.]

Price Of Dew Drops.--In lots of five or more, to one address, 20 cents
per copy per year, or 5-1/2 cents per copy per quarter. Address,

David C. Cook Publishing Co., Elgin, Ill.

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22, 1914***

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