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93. titled to every indulgence the farmer can give 



BULLOCKS them, they are expofed to the weather, be it 

 ever fo inclement ; with fcarcely a hedge to 

 flicker them : their only Ihelter being too 

 frequently nothing better than a row of naked 

 " buck-ftalled thornen bulls." No wonder, 

 then, that after the remarkably mild weather 

 we had at the beginning of winter, the late 

 fudden change mould give a check to fuch as 

 have been expofed abroad * ; deftitute of fhelter, 

 and, confequently, deftitnte of that tempera- 

 ture of mind as well as of body, which, perhaps, 

 is effential to their thriving. 



Mr. Cook, of Felmingham, whofe opinion 

 in this cafe is valuable, corroborates thefe ob- 

 fervations ; fo far, at leaft, as they relate to 

 the temperature of the body. A good lodging. 

 he fays, is a great thing to a bullock: his 

 expreffion was, " it keeps them warm within ; 

 *< and when they get up they ftretch them- 

 " felves, fhooting out their hind legs as if 

 " they meant to leave them behind in the par- 

 " yard." Whereas after having lain upon 

 the cold ground, more efpecially if it be wtt % 

 * l they become cold on the infide; and, on 

 " riling, flick up their backs, with their four 



* Homebreds are here fpokcrt of, 



" feet 



