DOMESTIC " RATTE RS " AND RAT-BAITING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, —There is a form of brutality frequently indulged in near street by a class whose respectable appearance leads one to believe they would rather e;o to work, or at least confine the display to a back yard. Will the police, or the Society whose name indicates humanity, prevent the torture of trapped animals by a crowd of unthinking men or hoodlums? Perhaps the offensive carcases which are left on the street will rouse our susceptible (?) natures. Some folks do pay a respect to the dead which is idly withheld while yet there is life and need for it ! Can it be that these animals are of no more account than we poor women, whose husbands thus seek solace for' their lazy selfishness during the intervals of its endurance at home ? The extension of our franchise has not lessened the number of over-worked women or overrested men. Oh ! for a reformer with hob-nailed boots to scatter these idle ones! I am, etc., " Mary Jane Spinks."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 72, 21 September 1895, Page 2
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176DOMESTIC " RATTERS " AND RAT-BAITING. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 72, 21 September 1895, Page 2
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