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came on board, and who is an Irish 

 friend of mine, was informed by the re- 

 mount officer in charge that in consequence 

 of an outbreak of glanders, 254 horses 

 had been shot, and that he would have 

 destroyed the remainder, had not the in- 

 clemency of the weather prevented him from 

 throwing more carcasses overboard. A strict 

 veterinary examination was thereupon held 

 on the survivors, with the result that not 

 the slightest indication of glanders was found 

 among any of them. When the amateur 

 pathologist was asked his reasons for saying 

 that glanders was present among his shipment, 

 he stated that the animals exhibited the un- 

 failing diagnostic symptom of a "cheesy 

 discharge from their nostrils ! " And thus, 

 over ^10,000 of public .money was needlessly 



