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may consider tlie allegorical representation of my 

 dream, when tried by the test of sober truth, it 

 is all sheer nonsense, and more like the raving of 

 a Bedlamite than the language of a m riter who 

 profefees to advocate the cause of science. In 

 fact the whole Epistle proves, to any man ac^ 

 qnainted with Veterinary history, that the writer 

 is grossl}^ ig'norant of the subject he has attemptecl 

 to treat upon. The thin-heeled shoe had beei^ 

 used with success by Osmer long before Mr. Cole- 

 man's time ; and his objection to the foot of the 

 horse being held sacred from the kiiife* ; and to 

 the frog and hoof jogging on, as he terms if, lov- 

 ingly together, that is, as God formed them, is 

 the same as if he objected to his nose and face 

 continuing their present intimacy and proportion ; 

 indeed, that prominent feature, the proboscis, is 

 very likely, 1 tiiink, to become elongated by the 

 fingers of any man of common courage, if the au- 

 thor of the Epistle in propria persona, deals his 

 abuse as liberally as he does under the mask of a 

 Subscriber. 



The answer to the four questions, at the con- 

 clusion of the Epistle, is plain and easy enough. 



First. — There is a practical system of the vete- 

 rinary art taught at the Veterinary College— a sjs- 

 tern founded on an anatomical knowledge of the 

 animal, and evert/ pupil takes his routine of duty, 

 in personally dressing wounds, and aiiplying the 



* I jnean so far only ought the knife to be used, as to geb rid ( f 

 that accunmlatum of morbid matter, which ^oture herself carniot 

 get rid off, iu caiisc<iucuce of Ibe arlificLai covering of the shoe, 1 



