a small rat; upon which he exclaimed, "Oh, I have no pity for rats!"-People choose to give the term vermin to those animals that happen to like what they themselves like; wasps eat peaches, and they call them vermin.-I can hardly persuade myself that there is no compensation in a future existence for the sufferings of animals in the present life,*for instance, when I see a horse in the streets unmercifully flogged by its brutal driver. I well remember one of the heads of the rebels upon a pole at Temple-Bar,-a black shapeless lump. Another pole was bare, the head having dropt from it.t In my childhood, after doing anything wrong, I used always to feel miserable from a consciousness Compare a poem On the Future Existence of Brutes, by Miss Seward,-Poet Works, ii. 58.-ED. "The last heads which remained on the Bar were those of Fletcher and Townley. Yesterday,' says a news-writer of the 1st of April, 1772, one of the rebels' heads on Temple Bar fell down. There is only one head now remaining."" P. Cunning. ham's Handbook of London, sub Temple Bar.-ED. i |