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fortunately happened that that was not the foot in which the 
lameness had occurred. During these four weeks the horse 
had been regularly hard worked, but no disposition to lame- 
ness had shown itself. On the 31st January she was driven 
to Bath as usual, but on her return, when near Bristol, she 
all of a sudden became dead lame, so lame that she could not 
put her foot to the ground, and in that crippled state she 
hobbled into Bristol, and was taken to the owner’s stables, 
where she was seen by the defendant. The defendant 
treated the horse with w.hat skill he possessed, and the jury 
had heard from the evidence that he had adopted every 
expedient which suggested itself to his mind. 
After a brief summing up, the jury returned a verdict for 
the defendant . — Bristol Mirror, \6t/i April, 1853. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
The statement Mr. Major has made in regard to the 
occurrences between him and ourselves is a correct one. 
The reason why the horse was not sent to his stables on the 
day appointed was that the funeral of the Duke of Wel- 
lington occupied the entire regiment for several days, and 
forbade us losing the services even of a single man and horse. 
This over, however, the horse in question was sent, and was 
refused admission by Mr. Major, as has been already stated, 
on the score of want of room for him. Mr. Major, as he 
asserts, made us the liberal offer of “ both keeping him and 
treating him for nothing and we can only regret, for his 
sake as well as our own, that circumstances interposed which 
frustrated the object we both had in view. We are sorry 
Mr. Major should entertain so mean an opinion of us as for 
a moment to imagine us to be capable of acting double with 
him — in his own words, to be behaving towards him “ on 
a par with other treatment he was then receiving from 
Veterinary surgeons” — and to “ consider” that we were 
“ fooling” him. We had but one object in view, and that 
