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ediy, at his own rifk, and the mere common 

 price, gelt a full-grown boar, by cutting away 

 the whole fcrotum, tefticles, cords and all, with- 

 out ufing the leail application of any kind! 

 I wonder this fellovvr, on the flrength of his 

 boldnefs and good fortune, has not had, like his 

 northern brother, fome right honourable and 

 right reverend patient ; not indeed for caftra- 

 tion. 



Blaine's inftance of Mr. Cline's two horfes, 

 was inconfiderately given ; a mere exception 

 probably. I have never heard that the ligature 

 was laid afide on account of fatal accidents, and 

 it prevailed many years. Mr. Blaine's theory 

 of the danger of inflammation, in quadrupeds, 

 from the peculiar vacancy between the fcrotum 

 and the abdomen, will barely hold water. 

 Will fa6ls fatisfy him ? If boars are quadru- 

 peds within his defcription, I can furnifh him 

 with fome cafes. In about eleven years, I cut, 

 with my own hands (a delicate amufement, 

 which it will be flrange if ever I repeat) many 

 more, I apprehend, than five fcore full grown 

 boars, of all ages and fizes, invariably ufmg the 

 ligature, and was equally fuccefsful with any 

 other cutter. Part of the time, an old Irifliman 

 was accuftomed to cut for me, who never ufed 

 either ligature, or any other application, fait 

 excepted. This man, hearing that another 

 lived with his wife, in Ireland, fat off one day, 



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