The trapper

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In a recent post about poems relating to humanity's

poor treatment of animals, Marguerite quoted:

 

" The " belated horror " of a trapper is described by

Mary Coles Carrington in a poem called " The trapper "

 

" How dark the hour of death must seem,

To him who as the end draws near,

Sees the accusing piteous ghosts

Of tortured animals appear!...

I cannot think God would requite

Even to him such pain and dread,

But this I pray - that he may hear

And understand the hapless dead " ;.....

 

Sometimes it does happen that people on their

deathbeds repent of the cruelty they inflicted on

animals.

 

A man living in New York in the late 1800's who had

become rich by the trapping of animals for their fur,

came to be haunted by guilt for the pain he had

inflicted. On his deathbed, he requested that a man

well known for his concern for animals come to see

him.

 

The visitor of the dying man was Henry Bergh, the

founder of the SPCA, and the money the trapper left to

the Society was used to build the SPCA shelter in New

York city, the first animal shelter in the U.S.

 

 

 

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