"My dear young lady, if you could see what I have seen, you'd never eat another bit of meat all the days of your life." Miss Laura wrinkled her forehead.

"I know--I have heard," she faltered.
"It must be terrible." "Terrible--it's awful," said the gentleman.

"Think of the cattle on the western plains.

Choked with thirst in summer, and starved and frozen in winter.

Dehorned and goaded on to trains and steamers.