THE ASS WOURALIA. 
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There she fed on an excellent pasture in summer, 
and was always well sheltered from the cold and 
piercing blasts of each succeeding winter. Thus 
did poor Wouralia pass her days in peace and 
plenty, till Friday evening, the 15th instant, when 
she laid her down for the last time, to rise no 
more — having survived the operation nearly five 
and twenty years. 
Wouralia has been of use to science ; for on her 
it has been proved that there is one remedy— and 
perhaps only one — for wounds received from the 
poisoned arrows of the Indians. 
This poison appears to be so narcotic in its 
nature, and so gentle in its operation, that the 
! victim is supposed not to be in pain, when dying 
under its influence. 
Several of our scientific gentlemen are strongly 
< of opinion that the application of Wourali poison 
would prove successful in cases of hydrophobia and 
of locked jaw. 
We have Mr. Waterton's directions to state that 
he has the identical poison from which a portion 
was taken, in 1814, to make the experiment on the 
ass. Having lately had occasion to send a little of 
it to Paris — on opening the ball of wax in which it 
is contained, he found it in primest order^ although 
it has been in our climate upwards of five and 
twenty years. 
I Should any animal betray positive symptoms of 
hydrophobia, Mr. Waterton would willingly try the 
effect of the W^ourali poison on it; and should one 
of our own species labour under a confirmed locked 
