FRIENDS AND HELPERS

COMPILED BY

SARAH J. EDDY

1899




PREFACE.

The object of this book is to teach children to treat all living
creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of
man's helpers in the animal world.

In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for
the school-teacher to arouse interest in the animals dependent upon us,
and to encourage pity and compassion for their suffering.

Sir Arthur Helps says: "The great advancement of the world, throughout
all ages, is to be measured by the increase of humanity and the decrease
of cruelty."

Cruelty in any form is a species of savagery. Civilization can be
brought about only by education. The savage does not know that he is a
savage. The child does not realize that he is cruel, until he is shown
the ways in which the lower animals suffer and are made miserable.