When we explained to a visiting aunt from England what the bear baiting issue is about, she could not believe that in 2014 this practice is going on – and in Maine even.
Her comment was “How appalling! Do you people still send 10-year-old boys into the mines as well?”
Barbara Skapa
Mount Vernon
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