62 ANATOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS. 



Such a form of union proves the animal to have suffered inflammation. 

 The injury must have been endured and the agony must have run its 

 course ; for an osseous junction is positive evidence that all the stages 

 of inflammation have been survived. Few persons, when they behold 

 the young donkey stagger under the weight of its six-foot rider, care to 

 think of this ; nay, the writer has beheld really worthy gentlemen stand 

 and enjoy the scene of activity presented at evening time by a rural 

 gipsy's encampment. The women were laughing, the men were shout- 

 ing, while the more jovial of the gang were racing on the common. Those 

 poor donkeys, which already had been goaded to the performance of no 

 ordinary day's toil, were carrying terrific loads, and beaten till they gal- 

 loped, despite the deep-seated anguish with which they were afflicted. 



