" 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.