8 0?i Hoven Cattle* 



However absurd they may appear to persons of intel- 

 ligence, I have been present when such causes have 

 been seriously assigned. All my endeavours to pro- 

 cure the application of prompt remedies, have been 

 defeated by one or other of these vagaries. The knife 

 is the surest remedy for, and antidote against, this ima- 

 ginary poison. It instantaneously dissolves the fancied 

 spells of the ideal practitioners in witchcraft. It ba- 

 nishes from the brains of those who prove themselves 

 no conjurers, all apprehensions on this score; more 

 decidedly and promptly than even the old horse shoe, 

 nailed on the door sill. These latter observations are 

 made with the sole view of warning the owners of stock, 

 against the ignorance and prejudices of their subor- 

 dinates or weak advisers, and to induce them personally 

 to attend to the preservation of their cattle, on such 

 sudden and dangerous emergencies, 



