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Resurrection was thrown away as a foal for dead, and 

 revived on a warm dung-heap ; how Wanderer spent 

 his life in carrying his litter out of his box into the 

 yard, and never let any one catch his eye or see him 

 lie down from the time he was put out of training ; 

 and how in the spring of 1825 nearly every brood 

 mare and sympathetic she-ass on the Petworth estate 

 cast full-grown dead foals from no apparent cause. 

 Generations of Barnums might have made their 

 market by watching stud-farms alone. The curios- 

 ities of breeding experience are, in fact, endless. 

 Two foals are registered as having had five legs apiece ; 

 an Orvile mare, after going thirty-seven days beyond 

 her time, gave birth to one with no feet ; and her 

 half-sister not to be outdone, had another, shortly 

 after, with no eyes. Lord George Bentinck was very 

 fond of breeding experiments. Monstrosity produced 

 such a good foal in Ugly Buck, when she was only 

 three, that he determined to steal another year, and 

 sent Experiment to Venison when she was just eleven 

 months old, but her colt barely lived twenty-four 

 hours. The dam of Montreal was the most remark- 

 able prodigy that ever passed through his hands, as 

 she was in foal only three times in 1842-47, and 

 threw twins each time. In many instances mares 

 have had twins their first season ; but as a general 

 rule it is hardly possible to rear one, much less both. 

 The nurture of Tweedle-dee-dum and Tweedle -dee- 

 dee was a strong instance to the contrary ; and the 

 strangeness of the " difference " between them con- 

 sisted in the superior thriving of the one which was 

 reared, like little Milksop, upon cow's milk. Occa- 

 sionally a twin is put in training ; but King Pepin is 

 the only one, of late years, which has shown any 

 form. Cedric, the Derby winner, may also be men- 

 tioned as a singular instance of a horse who never 

 got a foal ; and we remember one of less note which, 

 season after season, refused to notice a mare, till he 



