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how ? The simplest remedy was the knife : 

 so, perfectly regardless of veins, arteries, and 

 other sucli nonsensical barriers to the art of 

 surgery, he gallantly set to, his arms bearing 

 a knife dexter, and red-hot poker sinister. ; 

 Strange to say, Doctor Sangrado effected a 

 cure where many an artiste would have 

 failed, and sold Snowy for five pounds to 

 Farmer Leloup. 



" For years has he toiled at fetching ma- 

 nure, and without a feed of corn in his poor 

 flanks, did this true English pony win the 

 stakes for his master. 



" I have heard of the viscissitudes of ' the 

 high-mettled racer,' and many the schoolboy 

 \\\\o has almost wept at the prints of his 

 miserable y?na/e — going to the dung-cart; but 

 one seldom hears of such a resurrection as a 

 racer from the dung-cart ! Nil admirari ! 

 however ; that is the motto of the nineteenth 

 century !" 



HORSES IN INDIA. 



In India there seems to be a considerable 

 variety of breeds of Horses. If we look to the 

 performance of some of the races, which have 

 }>ecome so fashionable there of late years, we 

 shall see that the Horses, whether for speed 

 or bottom, are very far from being con- 

 temptible, even when compared with some of 

 our own. In such a climate, where every 

 European must of necessity be mounted, it be- 

 comes of importance, for the army as well as 

 civilians, that proper attention should be paid 

 to the selection of the best Hors-es to breed 

 from ; and we believe that a large establish- 

 ment for that purpose has been under the 

 management of the Indian Government for 

 vears ; and we should naturally suppose with 

 Borae success. 



The Editor of " The Horse," published 

 under the superintendence of the Society for 

 the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge says : — 



The Toorky, originally from a Toorkoman 

 and a Persian, is beautiful in his form, graceful 

 in his action, and docile in his temper. It is 

 said that, when skilfully managed, the gran- 

 deur and stateliness of his carriage are equal 

 to what the warmest imagination can con- 

 ceive of the Horse : his spirit rising as his ex- 

 ertions are required, he exhibits to his 

 beholders an appearance of fury in the per- 

 formance of his task, yet preserving to his 

 rider the utmost grace, playfulness, and gen- 

 tleness. 



Next comes the Iranee, well limbed, and 

 his joints closely knit, and particularly power- 

 ful in the quarters, but with scarcely sufficient 

 spirit, and his ears large and loose. 



The patient and docile Cozakee is deep in 

 the girth, powerful in the forearm, but with 

 large head, and sadly cat-hammed ; hardy, 

 and calculated for long journeys and severe 

 service. 



The Mojinniss have spirit, beauty, speed, 

 and perseverance. 



The Tazsee is slight, hollow-backed, and, 

 for that reason perhaps, although deficient in 

 strength, and leaving as it were his hind legs 

 behind him, and likewise irritable in temper 

 yet sought after on account of the peculiar 

 easiness of his pace. 



A sale of Horses near the Company's stud, 

 at Hissar, is thus described by an excellent 

 judge. " Not less than one thousand Horses 

 were shewn. They were all above fourteen 

 hands and a half in height, high-crested, and 

 shewy -looking Horses. The great defect 

 seemed a want of bone below the knee, which 

 is indeed general to all the native Horses 



