" There is a good deal of talk nowadays about kindness to domestic animals, but I do not hear much about kindness to wild ones. The same Creator formed them both. I do not see why you should not protect one as well as the other. I have no more right to torture a bear than a cow."

 An excerpt from the novel

 " Beautiful Joe"

written by revered Valley author 

Margaret Marshall Saunders

published in 1894.