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    the first " taste of the air , very unaccountably disposed . . If he be in the , country , he falls incontinently to rolling in the grass , or takes to kicking his heels , or tries a short run with a jump at the end of it , with other caprices of motion , which have nothing at all to do with getting on , and

    for which , very likely , he heartily despises himself . He is soon relieved . His habitual feelings , and numberless little circumstances of his daily experience , are at hand to quell his romping vivacity at a moment ' s notice . He feels a twinge of the rheumatism , or recollects a bad bargain , —and we see no more of his jumps . "—pp . 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 .

    The essay concludes with a description of youthful old age , not unlike that which has been presented to us in the person of the ' Vicar of Wakefield / " 1 have known one individual of this description , and only one ; a joyous baby of threescore , with whom I once went a bird-nesting in company with his grand-children . It was in a spring morning , early , when the dew still sparkled on the grass , and all nature was an image of youth

    and freshness . The grey head of my companion might be considered a little out of season ; but his cheerful eye , his lively talk , and ready laugh , were in perfect keeping with the general scene . Time had set his mark upon him ; but , like an old thorn , he blossomed to the last . Age had stiffened his joints , and hardened his sinews ; but his affections were still full of spring and flexibility . He could not exactly play at leap-frog but he could still stand and look on with wonderful agility . '—pp . 10 , 11 .

    We pass on to an essay entitled Of cruelty to animals , and Mr Martin ' s Act . " \ he quiet humour , and serene-tempered style of Ayton ' s occasional satire will be very apparent in the following extract;—" Our poor fellow-creatures on all fours , if they had no claims to our active care and kindness from their manifold services in our behalf , have

    from their mere community with us in the great inheritance of flesh and blood and sense of pain , an undeniable title to our mercy and forbearance * In the relation between man and horse , custom , and a sort of convenience , have determined , that the former should be the rider : but , notwithstanding this enormous distinction , there are still such affinities between thfc two , as should relieve him who is undermost from the positive cpntempt of his superior , or at least protect him from all superfluous tyranny and

    torture . In few words , because a forked creature , in a coat arid hat , conceives himself made on purpose to sit astride an animal with ijbur legs and a tail , it does not therefore follow that he has a clear Vighr to maltreat it , in wantonness either of sport or rage . There seems to be no very decisive objection , on the part of the horse , to the man ' s first fancy ; he may ride , and , for aught I know , be innocent : but the testimony of his own flesh will assure him , that to lash a horse to the bare bones is an act of inhuman iniquity . "—pp . 43 , 44 . ¦• > ¦ : ¦ >

    Our author next proceeds to an original view *—it is probable th&t hie was the only writer who adopted it at the time *» of Mr Martin ' s Act for the prevention or cruelty to animals . . ff , All * he fin ^ r parts of morality are not within tjie jurisdiction of | Jic court * Here and there a fellow m ^ y be found % utw enough , tjo las , ! )

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    Retrospective Glances . $$ 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/7/