The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it.
in the book THE JUNGLE.
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A wounded deer leaps highest,
I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
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I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs,,
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings
Mirth is mail of anguish,
In which its cautious arm
Lest anybody spy the blood
And, you're hurt exclaim.
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar
Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar
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One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke
and then served his dead body with artichokes.
They did the little boy turkey named Art... choke
and then served his dead body with artichokes.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.
When I step out of the role you have written for me
you make me feel like a plagiarist.
from read more
When I step out of the role you have written for me
you make me feel like a plagiarist.
from the play Jake's Women.
The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick
like a posthole digger.
(in reference to the death by ruptured kidney
and read more
The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick
like a posthole digger.
(in reference to the death by ruptured kidney
and other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jones
by 2 Cincinnati policemen).
30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.
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30,000 baby chicks were sent through a San Diego factory farm chipper by workers too tired to continue individual strangling.
That made the chipper a chicker.. while the little drum with swirling knives into which some factories drop baby chicks is called an eviscerator.. and what is the name
for those tiny mouse sized guillotines Purina as owner of the magazine Lab Animal advertised for decapitation
of captive expendable lab animals?
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.
