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his glandered horse along with him, leaving his wife to 
watch, in the road, her market articles : for this day, at least, 
unmarketable.* Now you know 
“ John Bull is a jolly old fellow, 
As fat as a Smithfield prize pig, 
Fares well, drinks, smokes, and gets mellow, 
Nor cares about Tory or Whig.” 
It appears by our legislative measures, that John only fears 
foreign contagion in his extremities. During the first visita- 
tion of the cholera, vessels from Newcastle were put under 
quarantine in the Thames, while the mails, from the same 
place, carried passengers through the country. Veterinary 
surgeons watch with jealous eyes, at out-ports, for free-trade- 
diseased foreign cattle, as if it were useless to turn their eyes 
inwards, and that there were no diseased cattle in Her 
Majesty’s dominions. In c The Veterinarian,’ for Oct. 
1850, p. 584, we find that as “Old Erin may harbour no 
venomous thing,” pleuro-pneumonia was transported across 
the channel in 1841. Well, having discovered this, any one 
would suppose that effectual means could have been adopted 
to stopf the footsteps of Irish droves, and the ruinous con- 
* Had this been Mrs. Bull she would have roared out lustily — 
Oh ! John, my butter and eggs ; 
What shall I do with my fowls ? 
Rheumatics I’ll get in my legs ; 
Of such law makers — the owls ! 
You see, I am shamefully sarved, 
By detective Weterinotomy, 
My glandered colt sent to be carved ; 
Of the dam he would make an anatomy. 
Oh, for a Habeas Corpus ! 
Your cart, say is made my prison — 
Like one — detective has caught us, 
Wot prigs, wot isn’t his o’n. 
When my body you have again got, 
Bring an action for profit and loss , 
Of money I would have a lot, 
If its only for making me cross. 
Germanic wife may take it coolly, 
But blow me tight if I do, 
English law, or I’ll be unruly, 
I will not have aught that is new. 
f In Germany the footsteps of a diseased drove are soon stopped by the 
district veterinary surgeon. (Vide Importation of Foreign Cattle, ‘Veterinarian,’ 
1849.) No one in Germany would think of going near a village to purchase 
cattle or sheep, that the district veterinary surgeon had pronounced diseased. 
In England, however, the law is very different, any one may purchase disease 
and distribute it all over the country. The very heavy losses that have fre- 
quently happened on the Continent makes them more careful in this respect. 
“ But the question is, whether this object can be attained without too wide a 
departure from those municipal laws and rights which every country cherishes 
as its own peculiar system.” 
