18 ASS. Class I. 



the horse. One which died in 1782, had been 

 employed in turning the water-wheel at the deep 

 well in Carishrooke castle for forty years. 

 Qualities. The qualities of this animal are so well 

 known, that we need not expatiate on them ; its 

 patience and perseverance under labor, and its 

 indifference in respect to food, need not be men- 

 tioned ; any weed or thistle contents it : if it 

 gives the preference to any vegetable, it is to 

 the Plaintain ; for which we have often seen it 

 neglect every other herb in the pasture. The 

 narrow-leaved Plaintain* is greedily eat by 

 horses and cows ; of late years it has been great- 

 ly cultivated and sowed with clover in North 

 Wales, particularly in Anglesey, where the seed 

 is harvested, and thence dispersed through other 

 parts of the principality. 



The ass goes full a year in foal. 



* Plantago lanceolata. FL And. 52. 



