'68 EVILS. 



a few days after, in the greatest agony. 



I will merely subjoin, that strangles and 

 influenza, to which all horses are subject, 

 are frequently mistaken for this horrible 

 disorder; there is a similarity certainly in 

 the early stages, but ulcerated nostrils and 

 the nauseous smell of the discharge are 

 always decisive, and as soon as these are 

 evident the animal should be destroyed. 

 No one need wish his neighbour, be 

 he friend or foe, who has anything to do 

 with horses, a greater or more serious 

 evil than the glanders. 



The misfortunes with which I had been 

 visited, though evils of no common 

 occurrence, were such as all men in 

 business are subject to, and from which 

 some have better opportunities of reco- 

 vering than others, some also can dis- 

 play better judgment in treating them 

 than others: be that as it may, it 

 pleased the Almighty about this time 



