The local Mayor himself wrote in answer to her article.

He drew a moving picture of the sad results that might follow such an ill- considered agitation: hundreds of grey-haired men, too old to learn new jobs, begging from door to door; shoals of little children, white-faced and pinched; sobbing women.

Her editor was sorry for the rabbits.

Had often spent a pleasant day with them himself.

But, after all, the Human Race claimed our first sympathies.
She wanted to abolish sweating.