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selves so much so, that I wrote to a 

 very noted veterinary surgeon at Salis- 

 bury. I had long known him, as 

 he and his father had been en- 

 gaged with my father in the coach 

 business, and he had been very judi- 

 ciously placed at the college in London, 

 where he had, sometime before, passed 

 an examination with very great credit. 



He came by the mail in the morning, 

 and, after examining the horse, pro- 

 nounced his disease to be the glanders, 

 of the most malignant description. I 

 need not add, that the animal was led 

 out and immediately killed an operation 

 that my friend most skilfully performed, 

 by inserting his knife between, and a 

 little behind, his ears, thereby causing 

 almost instant death. 



Thus, reader, have I been perhaps 

 tediously explicit in relating the com- 

 mencement of a malady, or I may say 



