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suffering from dilation of the right side of the head. She 

 was looked upon with interest bj a strong muster of stu- 

 dents, who hoped to see further into matters, and pro- 

 posed to buy the mare, to be destroyed, as the only hu- 

 mane method to treating her. But, as we are informed, 

 a friend, seeing the animal with swelled legs, only thought 

 he could cure the case, and urged that she should be sent 

 to his farm, where he would put her to thie plough. In 

 opposition to professional advice, this was agreed upon, 

 and the students disappointed of their legitimate prize. 

 Not many days elapsed before the farmer found that he 

 had undertaken a hard task, in attempting to cure the 

 swelled legs. Seven dollars and a half were realized for 

 this likely-looking animal, and we believe a smith, near 

 Edinburgh, was the purchaser. Here, the trickery com- 

 menced; and a simple countryman greedily closed a bar- 

 gam, which enriched the smith by forty-two dollars and fifty 

 cents. The animal's wind, was, however, wrong, and cart- 

 work would not suit her; so that, in despair, an exchange 

 was effected with some of the ingenious dealers in horse- 

 flesh, in this town. Exchange followed exchange, and it 

 proved very troublesome to trace the animal, when at last, 

 in broad day-light, she falls, by the auctioneer's hammer, 

 to the lot of a man from Glasgow-side. 



Many a twenty dollar note can be made out of a poor 

 animal thus knocked from hand to hand, until, in the 

 course of nature, it drops dead in harness. The history 

 of the case is as interresting as would have been the post 

 mortem to the students; and it will be found that one of 

 the most remarkable features in such cases, is the length 

 of time that animals retain a selling appearance, though 

 absolutely unfit for any exertion." 



Heaves. — This is a term in frequent use, but not so 



