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recover compensation for the loss of thirty-nine lambs, which 
he had sustained through using a dressing for the tick, sup- 
plied by the defendant without proper directions. 
The jury empannelled to try the case consisted of John 
Pritchard, Landenny; Henry Crump, Glascoed ; John Row- 
land, Llangwm , John Davies, Llanbaddock; and Benjamin 
Scriven, Usk. 
Mr. Edmund B. Edwards, of Pontypool, attended for the 
plaintiff, and Mr. Blunt, of Usk, appeared for the defendant. 
Mr. Edwards opened the case, and called 
James Dew, who said, — I am in the employ of Mr. Parry, 
of the Buildings farm. In July last I went to Mr. Edwards’s 
shop ; Mr. Edwards was from home. I asked the assistant 
if they kept anything in the shop for cc dipping/ 5 to keep the 
the fly off. He said yes. I said I want enough to dress 
forty-six lambs, for Mr. Parry, of the Buildings, and the 
directions, if you please. I told him I would wait for it, as 
we wanted to dress the sheep that evening. He said, what 
stuff are you to take? I said, my myster did not care what 
stuff ; but Mr. Edwards was to send it and the directions. 
He brought the stuff out and put it on the counter, and said, 
there is enough for forty. I said, I want enough for forty- 
six. He said, well there is enough for forty-six. I then 
asked for the directions. He said, when you get home, put 
half a pint of boiling water upon it and stir it, and it will 
come a nice liquid. 1 said, what do you say? and he re- 
peated it again. I said, how am I to put it on? He said, 
take a dish, and throw it away when you have done, and just 
part the wool, and rub the mixture along the back, and that is 
all. I asked the question a third time, and he said, rub it along 
the back, and think of the half-pint of water. I took it home, 
and my master put the half-pint of boiling water on it, and 
took a stick, and stirred it. It did not bring the stuff to any 
sort of liquid, so I put nearly another half-pint; it was then thick 
like an ointment. We dressed all the sheep, and did not use 
half the mixture ; the jar now produced was three parts full. 
Next morning eleven lambs were found dead ; and, by my mas- 
ter’s orders, I went to Mr. Edwards. He was from home, but I 
afterwards met him in the street. I said, half the lambs are 
dead that I dressed with the stuff out of your shop yesterday. 
He asked me if there was anything the matter with the 
sheep. I said no, they were quite healthy ; and it was only 
the stuff your man sent out, and there are more dying. He 
said, what sort of thing was it. I said, a deep blue ointment. 
Mr. Edwards then said, if he intended it to be rubbed on, he 
must have put too much mercury in it ; if it w r as for dipping 
