Mismanagement. 



Besides this functionary, there are other mem- 

 bers of the executive called " viewers," who do 

 not forget their exalted position, attained in some 

 instances, I fear, at a speed which has not ad- 

 mitted of the mind assuming an adaptability to 

 it; at least, judging from the amount of pre- 

 sumption with which these men vaunt their 

 opinions upon professional matters, and in their 

 want of respect to others infinitely higher in the 

 social scale. 



Under such principles of " grandeeism," it is 

 not surprising that, with unsystematic feeding, 

 hard work unnecessarily protracted, with cruelty 

 overlooked or connived at, mortality is excessive. 

 The ears of reason are, however, stopped, and as 

 some one must bear blame when it is forthcoming, 

 he who possesses the least influence in the matter 

 the resident veterinary surgeon receives the 

 whole in a most ignominious manner. 



Happily all are not of this kind. 



Some of my best friends are engaged in the 

 management of extensive collieries, and have amply 

 shown what can be done to ameliorate the life 

 and condition of the poor creatures employed 

 there. Such bear a remarkable contrast to the 

 former class, who never recognise the efforts of 

 others except when they can be appropriated as 

 their own good deeds, by which they seek the 

 adulation of the owner, and swamp into in- 

 significance him who feels it an imperative duty 

 to utter a word for reform or economy. This 



