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Title: Minor morals for young people. : Illustrated in tales and travels.
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Bowring, John, Sir, 1792-1872 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, engraver Heath, William, 1795-1840, engraver
Subjects: Youth
Publisher: London: : Whittaker and co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ime Minister.I wrote to him immediately, and a despatchwas sent off without delay to Madrid, direct-ing the British Minister to claim the personwho, without the forms of legal proceeding, 2Q MINOR MORALS. had been thus arbitrarily detained. The in-tervention was successful, and the prisonerwas released. He accompanied the returning messengerto England; he brought with him the funeralmementos of Riego—the pocket handkerchiefwith which he wiped his last mortal butmanly tears—and gave it to his widow. Poorthing! she was then drooping—like a lily onits stem—fair and pure; and the weight ofgrief soon overwhelmed a broken hearty andloosened the silver cord of an existence atten-uated by long disease. I remember her—asaint-like beauty—disassociated, as it were,from earth. Matthewes brought with him one othertreasure—it was a white dove. While ex-cluded from all knowledge of what was pass-ing in the world—hopeless of ever communi-cating his forlorn condition to any living soul
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USES OF ANIMALS TO MAN. 21 —that dove had flown into his cell. Heplucked a feather from its wing, and, withhis teeth and nails, shaped it into a pen.He made ink of the filth he gathered in thecorners of his miserable abode ; he tore outthe lining of his hat, on which he wrote theaccount that led to his deliverance—that wasthe memorandum I received. What becameof the dove I know not; but GeorgeMatthewes died some years afterwards a pri-soner in Portugal. I was one day talking with MademoiselleDuvaucel, niece of the celebrated naturalist,Cuvier, on the tractableness of animals, andshe said they had then a curious example ofthe influence of one bird upon another,though of wholly different species. A vultureand a raven were neighbours in the Jardindes Plantes. The raven was, by commonconsent, allowed to be the most amiable 22 * MINOR MORALS. animal within the garden-walls, and was, inconsequence, a universal favourite. He hadleariit all sorts of tricks—such as catchingbread in the a

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