54* WARRANTY OF 



belonged to a Mr. Miens, a large coach proprietor 

 in Glasgow. After some trouble I saw him, when 

 he told me the mare I referred to was a chestnut, 

 that she ran a stage between Carlisle and Glas- 

 gow as leader, that she had been unnerved the high 

 operation and that the disease for which she was 

 operated upon was the navicular. One dark night, 

 about three or four months after the operation, the 

 coachman felt her drop, but she recovered herself, and 

 ran to the end of the stage. She was then discovered to 

 be very lame, and, upon examination in the stable, it 

 was found that the whole of the foot was off, and that 

 she must consequently have run some distance on the 

 stump of the leg bone. The next morning the foot 

 was discovered at a distance of not less than two miles 

 from the inn she arrived at, and, from other marks 

 upon the road, it was clear that the poor beast must 

 have come at least that distance on the raw and dislo- 

 cated stump. 



I have entered more fully into this operation than into 

 any other, as I have often found it difficult to make 

 people understand how it is that the horse is not sound 

 or cured by that operation which takes away the 

 lameness. 



Although the lower portion of the limb is never 

 restored to its naturally quick sensibility, if the 

 horse works free from pain for from two to three 

 years, if there is every probability that he will con- 



