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were really cancerous. I have often removed such from the 
living animal, and almost always found them to be glandular 
cystic tumours. True cancer in the bitch seems to be most 
common in the vagina. 
"We know little as yet regarding the laws which determine 
its sadly frequent occurrence in the human being, and its 
relative rarity among the lower animals. The present, 
however, is a time when great attention is bestowed in culti- 
vating the important science of comparative pathology. 
Veterinary surgeons could do much to assist in this, and the 
pity is they do so little. 
“ THE KING AND VIZIER.” 
By Mr. Hodgson. 
No. 1 . — “ Hindostanee Story Teller .” 
“ A king said to his prime minister, 6 I would have an 
army.’ The vizier replied, 6 Sire, first collect money into the 
treasury, for where the honey is there will the flies be also.’ ” 
I am not satisfied in making extracts from Lieutenant 
Pigott’s treatise, therefore I send it that you may draw 
your ow 7 n conclusions therefrom. From my experience, I 
think him right ; whereas the nameless author of the pam- 
phlet on saddle horses, I believe is in error on several points ; 
though no doubt he is a good partisan, he did not like ap- 
pending his name to propositions he knew would not meet 
the interests, and in consequence not the wishes of the 
influential parties concerned on the turf ; yet, I believe, there 
are among them numerous patriotic individuals, who would 
go to the expense, for such it would be, of coming into the 
views of the writer, to breed and keep horses purposely 
for such races as he has described, but they know 7 it would 
fail in its object — the production of stallions to get army 
horses. Selections of this kind can now 7 be made from the 
slow horses w ith forms adapted to the purpose of the breeders 
of army horses. Direct their attention to this object only, 
and not to speed; and the best w-ay to do this is for th emo?iey 
to go direct into the breeders’ pockets by way of encourage- 
ment, “ for where the honey is there will the flies be also.” 
A few lumps given in the manner proposed to a few large 
flies to breed these kinds of horses, as stallions to get army 
horses, would be of no use, being too limited. 
When w T e look at Persia, situated as it is between Turco- 
mania and Arabia, w 7 e find it has always produced excellent 
