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OBITUARY. 
o’ some lovely creeter of a mare as died, and so broke his ’art, 
makin’ him come down in the world, and take no pride in hisself. 
For though 1 did all man could do to make him look decent, he 
never would, not a bit of it. If I bore him up tight, to make him 
arch his neck, he only arched it wrong ways — pyntin’ that nose of 
his at the sky, and goin’ along like a camel as was in wants of water 
in a great desert. If I put a couple o’ bits o’ laylock on each side 
of his blinkers, to cheer him up a bit, he’d do nothin’ but shake 
his head, mournful like, jest as if he was a-sayin’ : “This here’s a 
wale of tears and then, ten to one if he didn’t have a fit o’ 
megrims — bad uns too. He’d got the roughest coat as ever a hoss 
had, one as never shined on’y when it was wet ; while where his 
mane ought to have bin, was all a stubbly, scuffy ridge, like a worn- 
out brush. As for his tail — there, it worn’t no wonder as he used 
to keep it tucked very close in between his legs, for that was the 
only redeeming pynt in his character ; he was ashamed of that 
there tail. You never saw his old spavined hocks, nor his broken 
knees, nor his rough coat, nor nothin’ else, when That tail was 
wisible ; for it took up your whole attention, so as you couldn’t see 
nothin’ else. Thirty ’airs there was altogether in that there tail, 
for I counted ’em often, to see if any more was a-comin’ : but no ; 
not a blessed ’air more would come, no matter how I coaxed ’em. — 
Chambers's Journal. 
LONDON CATS AND CATS’ -MEAT. 
“ At a meeting of the vestry of St. George the Martyr, South- 
wark, on Wednesday, September 13th, a complaint of effluvia 
arising from Green Street, situate between Borough Hoad and 
Blackfriars Stations of the Chatham and Dover line, elicited a 
curious statistical statement from Mr. Shaw, one of the vestrymen. 
It appears that there is in the neighbourhood of Green Street a 
‘ knacker’s yard ;’ and Mr. Shaw, while stating that the effluvia did 
not arise from the horse-slaughtering premises, contended that 
horse-slaughtering establishments were highly necessary in London, 
inasmuch as 300 horses died weekly in the metropolis, in which 
there were no less than 700,000 cats to be fed. The statement 
of the feline population of London was received by the vestry with 
loud laughter.” 
OBITUARY. 
We have to record the death of Mr. A. J. Rogers, M.R.C.V.S., 
Brompton, London, in the 57th year of his age. Mr. Rogers’ 
diploma bears date Dec. 15th, 1836. 
EEEATA. 
Mr. Andrew Simpson requests us to correct liis paper in the September num- 
ber as under : 
Page 652, line 28 ,for “ I may add,” read “ I only add, is this so ?” 
Page 652, line 31, for “the indication of the disease,” read “the disease.” 
