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sword when lie feels the point pierce his bosom. How- 

 ever fatioTied or ill he may be, on he plods his weary way 

 till death kindly relieves him. What other animal does 

 this? Man himself sometimes dies from over-exertion, 

 but seldom while in the act. The dog — the faithful 

 companion who never forsakes his master — when over- 

 fatigued will lie down on the wayside, leaving his friend 

 to proceed alone; no entreaty can urge him unto death. 

 Not so the poor, ill-requited, over-worked, abused horse; 

 neither pain nor privation checks his services, as the fol- 

 lowing authenticated anecdote, as well as many other 

 instances which must rush upon the memory of every 

 horseman, or of any one who reads a newspaper, serves 

 to illustrate; besides, the circumstance serves to show 

 the effect of the operation, described in the preceding 

 article on unnerving when performed upon an improper 

 subject, and the indomitable spirit just referred to. 

 Hearing the following tale related as having occurred in 

 Scotland, I took some pains, when travelling through 

 that country, to ascertain the particulars. 



The mare which is the subject of this story 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 Glasgow 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 opera- 

 tion, the coachman felt her drop, but she recovered her- 

 self, and ran to the end of the stage. She was then dis- 

 covered 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 fl'om the inn she arrived at, and, from other marks 



