ON CHLOROFORMING HORSES. 223 



ledger in which every one of the acts of your life is 

 recorded, on one side how much he will gain, and on the 

 other, per contra, how very little you will lose, by the 

 evaporation of a fluid that will not cost you the price 

 of the shoes of the poor animal whose marketable value 

 you have determined, by excruciating agony to him, to 

 increase. 



As he lies prostrate, all that is necessary to save him 

 from suffering the smallest amount of pain is, to desire the 

 operator with his left hand to close the animal's upper 

 nostril, while beneath the lower one he places a quarter of 

 a pint tin pot, containing a sponge, on which is gradually, 

 dropped, from a little vial, chloroform sufficient to deprive 

 him of sensation, which can readily be tested by the occa- 

 sional slight prick of a pin; and although, when thus 

 lulled into an unconscious state, the noble animal may, 

 during a dreadful operation, possibly dream that 



" He sees war's lightning flashing, 

 Sees the claymore and bayonet clashing, 

 Sees through the blood the warhorse dashing " 



yet, on the restoration of sensation, which usually occurs 

 some minutes after the operation is over, he calmly awakens, 

 raises his head, and looks around, perfectly unconscious of 

 all that has occurred to him ! 



In every point of view in which it can be considered, 



