318 Origines Zoologicce, 



speedy transition from the corruptions of life to happy 

 eternity. 



After his death, the skin is made into a coarse and very 

 tough leather, mostly used for collars and harness ; rehearsing, 

 as it were, in the trammels of his life, his future destinies after 

 death. The hair of the mane makes wigs, and of the tail, the 

 stuffing of mattresses, and the bottoms of sieves and chairs, 

 clothes, and anglers' lines.* 



THE ASS. 



This patient and hardy quadruped seems to have been of 

 late importation into these islands, as he was unknown in the 

 time of Holinshed, His original destination, in this king- 

 dom, appears to have been the carriage of ore from the mines, 

 in mountainous countries, as being more firm and sure-footed 



* Wigs from the hair of the mane. Query, from that of the tail ? Horace 

 Smith, in his pretty satire beginning with 



" Since mortals are all, both great and small, 

 Created by their dresses j" 



has these lines : — 



" For the judge's nob, may its wisdom rob 

 From the tail of a four-legg'd mother ; 

 V And the grandeur's germ of the human worm 



May spring from its silken brother," 



We have been told that the long side curls of a judge's wig are derived 

 from the terminal hairs of cows' tails ; these hairs are of some length. 

 We may exercise the spirit of the poet's satire without arraigning the 

 judges, — J.B. 



[The following mentions by Shakespeare, appertaining to the horse, are 

 taken from the unpublished part of the communication by S, H., which 

 precedes the present one by Dr. Turton. 



• " Then I beat my tabor, 



At which, like unback'd coltSy they prick'd their ears. 



Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses. 



As they smelt music," Tempest^ act 4. sc, 1. 



Their \ioor jades 



Lob down their heads, dropping the hide and hips : 

 The gum down roping from their pale dead eyes j 

 And in their pale dead mouths, the jymold bitt 

 Lies foul with chaw'd grass, still and motionless." 



Henri/ V., act 4, sc. 7, 



" Horses hot at hand 



Make gallant show and promise of their mettle : 

 *" But when they should endure the bloody spur. 



They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades. 

 Sink in the trial." Julius Ccesar, act 4. sc, 2. 



Young colts disturb'd by music, worn-out hacks, and " bad-bottomed 

 uns," as a Yorkshireman would say, are here admirably depicted. — S. H] 



