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THE ASS WOURALIA. 
THE ASS WOURALIA.* 
(From the St. James's Chronicle.) 
Poor Wouralia breathed her last on Saturday 
morning, the 15th of February, 1839. 
She was formerly the property of a London 
sweep, and was purchased of him in the year 1814. 
being then three years old ; — so that she must 
have been in her eight and twentieth year, or 
thereabouts, at the time of her decease. 
On the day of sale, she was taken to the Veteri- 
nary College in London, and having been inoculated 
with theWourali poison which Mr. Waterton had 
brought from the wilds of Guiana, she sank in 
apparent death, at the expiration of ten minutes 
from the time that she had received the poisoned 
spike in the fleshy part of her shoulder. 
Under the scientific superintendence of Mr, 
Sewell, she was restored by means of artificial 
respiration, which was effected with a pair of com- 
mon bellows applied to an incision in her windpipe. 
The operation lasted four hours ; after which she 
rose up and walked about, free from agitation, and 
apparently free from pain. 
The present Duke of Northumberland (then Lord 
Percy) wished that she should be called Wouralia, 
from the Indian poison Wourali, which had just 
rendered her destiny so very interesting. His 
Lordship sent her down to Walton Hall, with 
a request that she might be well taken care of. 
* See WatertoTi's WanderiTigs, 3d edit. p. 84. 
