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ducted me to a covered building, where the bodies of 

 the horses are boiled, and in which are steam-presses to 

 extract horse-oil, after which is made Prussian blue, 

 the residue being sold as manure." 



The visit to the slaughter-house for pigs is perhaps 

 the most comic chapter in the 'Faggot of French Sticks;' 

 but as we treat only of the horse at present, we must 

 entreat our readers to peruse it for themselves. We 

 shall only state the Parisian rule " No man has a right 

 to kill a pig in Paris." How different " in England, 

 where anybody, in one's little village, from the worthy 

 rector at the top of the hill down to the little ale-house- 

 keeper at the bottom, kills a pig ! The animal, who 

 has no idea of ' letting concealment, like a worm in the 

 bud, prey on his damask cheek,' invariably explains, 

 seriatim, to every person in the parish Dissenters and 

 all not only the transaction, but every circumstance 

 relating to it ; " and so continues an account of it so 

 ludicrous that we cannot copy it for laughing. 



But we must desist from further comment on what 

 Sir Francis Head has to communicate on the multifari- 

 ous matters stored up in his vigorous and well-furnished 

 intellect. All his works are amusing and instructive ; 

 and in the latest of them every owner of a horse may 

 learn much of importance alike to himself and his steed. 



We cannot conclude without expressing, an earnest 

 wish that all having horses shall give their servants 

 1 Horse-Taming,' by J. S. Rarey, as what purports to be 

 an unabridged edition has been published at Edinburgh, 

 adorned with a portrait ugly enough to frighten any 

 horse, and sold for a penny. We believe that to sub- 

 due a vicious and powerful horse, possessed by an evil 

 spirit such as seemed to have entered into " Cruiser," 

 there is need of more pluck, coolness, and strength than 

 falls to the lot of most men. We do not, therefore, an- 

 ticipate that every owner of a horse may call forth his 

 good and subdue his evil qualities with the success of 

 Mr Karey ; but every reader of his work may learn how 



