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will say that the most disgusting piece of affectation I ever saw, was 

 that of a hired man, whose chief delight was in perpetrating, witness- 

 ing, relating, discussing, and generally wallowing in filth and nasti- 

 ness, pretending to gag at the sight of a clean, wholesome cow con- 

 suming, in obedience to a divinely implanted instinct, the beautiful 

 membrane in which her calf had been enveloped in her womb, lest in 

 its decomposition it might serve to guide the enemies of her offspring 

 to its destruction. 



JOHN C. DILLON, 



Chairman of Com. on Milch Cows. 



