Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-12-22

STAPLE Hall Inn, Whitney j The horse was
therefore put into a field by the road side,
and was found next morning quietly feeding
about the field, with The feet and skin forced
nearly half way up the leg bones, and where
| i, had been walking about, The holes made in
the ground by the leg bones were three or
four inches deep.
A similar accident once happened to a
coach.horse, the property OF the late Mr.. Cos
tar, of Oxford il was found, when the coach
stoned 10 change horses, to have dislocsted
the fetlock joints, and from the wern appear
ance of the ends Of the leg bones, must have
! run a considerable distance along the road ia
that state. .
do not lay much stress in this case, as it
is not surprising that a spirited horse, IN har-
ness with others, should continue running
under such circumstances; bat IN the former
case, there was nothing to excite the horse
but its hunger, and If The pain had been equal
10 what such IA dreadful injury would seem
10 Indicate, it would probably, If in ever
such a famished state, have gone upon it's
knees to feed, rather than upon the injured
parts. -.
1t is curious TO observe the apparent indif-
I ference with which some animals VIII devour
parts of their own bodies. | once kept tame
dormice, and, in shutting the cage door, &C.
cidently caught the tail Of one OF them, when
il soupsked out and left the skin OF about
two.thirds Of its tail sticking 10 the door,
Whether the cry was caused by pain or lear,
| cannot decide; but it went about the cage
for a few minutes apparently rather uneasy,
il then took hold Of its tail with its paws and
eat all the injured part, and then seemed as
well as ever.
n An f.. 40. tbair fails ttbon in am
6nement. if kept short of food and the habit
of eating their own tails is not uncommon
amongst the monkey tribe. know a person
who used 10 dip the end Of his monkeys tail
in tobacco water TO keep il from being eaten,
and SOM of the monkeys in the London Zoo
logical Garden may at times be seen enjoy
ing themselves in this way but from what
ever cause this propensity may arise, | be-
lieve it is never INDUCED in by the monkeys
with prehensile tails their tails seem to be
too useful TO be so wanionly disposed Of, and
| have no doubt are therefore possessed of a
much greater share Of the sense Of pain.
A few years since, the Quarterly Review,
in a notice of the Dean of Weslminister's
work on the bones found in the cave at Kirk
Gale, stated tina. an old hyena kept in the Jar
din des Plsntes at Paris, had its leg broken,
w tOn OtC w ~ VII Oh u iCE a tNC OlphCb
part, and eat it.
The emasculation Of large cattle seems a
very barbarous operation, the parts being cut
with hot instruments; yet saw an aged bull
after undergoing that operation, walk away
very unconcernedly, and then after grazing
for about half an hour, he lay down and chew
ed his cud apparently quite comfortable.
Pigs make a sad outcry when being killed,
hnt I haIirya - ie .a,oad bv faar and The
comfortable way in which they are held, ra-
ther than by pain. ! once saw a large pig
which had been stuck, get away from the
men who were holding it, and there was not
the least cry after it had got out of sheir hands,
although it was bleeding to death when
smaller pigs are killed by sticking them, and
then letting them run about I'LL they drop.
there is no cry after they are let go; and if
stuck skillfully, without taking hold Of them,
there is no more noise than a mere grunt or
squeak. about the same as there would be if
the pig had a slight blow with the end Of a
stick and | have no doubt that a pig may
feel more pain from a heavy blow, that from
being killed in the usual manner. When it
is considered that the nose of a pig is so very
useful to the animal from its habit Of roofing
in the earth, and may therefore be very SEN
s%itive, it does seem probable that the opinion
is correct, that a pig feels more pain from hav-
ing a ring put through its nose, than in being
killed.
] have stated these cases to show that the
pain felt by brutes is much less than would
be felt by man under similar injuries. My
object is TO show the probability, that as the
sense Of pain is not so necessary or useful to
brutes, they have il in a less degree.
In the next class of animals TO which !
shall allude, that is, rabbits and hares, ! will
endeavor TO show that the use Of the sense oil
pain is, in a great degree, or almost com.
pletely, superseded by other senses, and thai
their sense Of pain is very trifing, compared
to that of most other quad rupeds. There car
be little doubt that, although so very prolific,
very few rabbits or hares in a wild state di.
of old age, as they are the food Of a large
class Of beasts Of prey. Foxes, wild cats
martins, polecats, stoats and weasels, could
not exist without them they are their natur
al prey, against the least of which the rabbi
or hare has no means of defence when ono,
caught; therefore the sense of pain would b,
of no use 10 them, either TO warn them from
danger or TO cause them TO exert themselves
to escapes; but a slight examination of IN,
form OF both rabbits and hares, will show tina
they have other means of defence; their eyei
are not placed in the 'front.' Of the head as il
beasts of prey, but in the side of the head
very prominent, so that they are enabled Il
see before, behind, and all around them theiI
ears also can be turned this way or that way
to catch the slightest sound. added TO which,
! they have a degree of timidity which keeps
them always on the alert.
With regard to their sense of pain, il is
well 10 know that a hare neyer. or very sci.
dom, cries out when shot, even if she receives
her death wound, if she can run a few yards
and hide herself; but if her legs are broken,
or she is in any way stopped from running,
even if caught in a net, which can give her
no real pain, she utters the most pileous
screams /; when followed by dogs, her screams
always begin before they have actually caught
her, and it is worthy of notice that she is
much more readily dispatched than perhaps
any other animal Of her size.
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