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for them in a corner, and the barn (hut for a 

 fortnight, at the end of which time they were 

 found alive, and killed, not one being able to 

 efcape. I have feen very fine barns built in 

 England, on capt ftones, into which no vermin 

 could get, unlefs carried in, but when they 

 were carried in they had a million of ways to 

 get out. 



BULLOCKS DRAWN BY THE HORNS. 



Lord Shannon upon going into tillage, found 

 that the expenfe of horfes was fo great, that 

 it eat up all the profit of the farm; which 

 made him determine to ufe bullocks ; he did it 

 in the common method of yokes and bows, but 

 they performed fo indifferently, and with fuch 

 manifeft uneafmefs, that he imported the French 

 method of drawing by the horns ; and in order 

 to do this effectually, he wrote to a perfon at 

 Bourdeaux to hire him a man who was practi- 

 fed in that method. Upon the correfpondent 

 being applied to, he reprefented difficulties at- 

 tending it, the man who was fpoken to having 

 been in Germany for the fame purpofe. Upon 

 which Lord Shannon gave directions that every 

 thing fhould be bought and fent over which the 

 labourer wifhed to bring with him. Accord- 

 ingly, a bullock of the bed fort, that had been 

 worked three years, was purchafed; alfo a hay- 

 cart, a plough, harrows, and all the tackle for 

 harnefling them by the horns, which, with the 

 man, were fent over. His falary was to be 

 400 livers a year, with board, &c. The bul- 

 lock 



