176 MINUTES APR; 



9p. all lay on the fame fide , namely, the right fide; 

 CUTTING the contrary fide to that on which females are 

 LAMBS. cut. This made the operation rather awkward 



to his hard ; he never thelefs performed the bu- 

 finefs fo fkilfully, and with fo much dexterity^ 

 that he extracted the two firft in a few minutes. 

 But the laft was a remarkably difficult cafe ; 

 the tefticle being very fmall, and braced up 

 clofe to the vertebras ; and it is obfervable, 

 he could fcarcely draw the palpable tefticle of 

 this lamb out of its bag : the punifhment to 

 the animal feemed full ap much in one opera- 

 tion as the other. 



The price of cutting^ a Hulling a piece. 



APRIL 22. The wind being cold, kept them 

 in the houfe all night : tut the cutter, though 

 the wind continued very pinching, thought it 

 proper for them to go out in the day-time for 

 the fake of exercife : they got very {tiff for fome 

 days, but are now doing very well. 



APRIL 30. One of them, neverthelefs, is 

 iince dead : owing, I apprehend, entirely to 

 their being too much expofed to an unufually 

 piercing eafterly wind. 



100. 



