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hundred fifty-four tliousand two hundred and thirteen quad- 

 rupedal swine — but whether learned or unlearned, male or fe- 

 male, black or white, bond or free, we are not told. It is suffi- 

 cient for this court that we are the honored instruments of the 

 dispensation of justice to a portion of more than thirty million 

 subjects — each having a fair claim to consideration in relative 

 merit, and each entitled to the fullest measure of justice at our 

 hands. That the best judges of the character, condition and 

 quality of animals, are those whose every-day business of life 

 brings them most in contact with the character, condition and 

 quality, either of the veritable, or those of like character, con- 

 dition and quality, is ably attested in the judicious appointments 

 of committees by the officers of this society. What more ap- 

 propriate position than that of the honorable chairman and his 

 associates of the committee on horses? — or of the honorable 

 chairman and his fellows of the committee on bulls and bull 

 calves ? Who can cut and carve, dissect or stuff with a more 

 skillful hand than your committee on fowls ? — or who are better 

 tasters than those who are constantly beckoning us to a laud 

 rich with " milk and honey." The honorable officers of this 

 most honorable society well assigned the most honorable post 

 — learning, legal, medical, theological, metaphysical, twistical 

 political, sparib-etical, ham-ological, sausag-etical, lard-ebotical, 

 brussel-etical, nose-logical, and tail-egetical, with all its blushing 

 honors combined in one manic wreath, tendered tliis honorable 

 court by the Trustees of the Androscoggin Agricultural Society, 

 wliile our modesty prompts us to reject them all as Caisar twice 

 refused the crown. 



No. 1 on being called, was made to stand up and look ihe 

 court in the face with some difficulty, while the merits of his 

 case were considered. Mr. Calvin Mower appeared as his coun- 

 sel, and recommended him as an improved iSull'olk boar, sixteen 

 months old, having been kept for sows the season past. Mr. 

 Mower being an intelligent farmer, and able advocate, set 

 forth the amiable qualities of his boar, (who is a fine, corpulent 

 gentlemanly hog,) sustaining his argument by authorities which 

 seemed unanswerable; but the court determined to see the 

 latter end of his case, and ordered the boar aforesaid to face 

 about, when behold, evidence unanswerable convinced us that 



