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break the skin; the skin was broken afterwards by the 
ointment. The skin began to crack some time after- 
wards. 
William Tarry , of the Buildings farm, Llandegveth, exa- 
mined — The last witness is my servant. I sent him to Usk, 
in July last, to Mr. Edwards’s for some “dipping,” and told 
him to ask for directions. On his bringing it home, I un- 
covered the pot, and asked for the directions. The man 
said he had not been given any except what he was told, — 
“ to put half a pint of boiling water upon it and stir it up, 
and it will come to a nice liquid ; then just part the wool, 
and rub it down the back.” We parted the wool from the 
neck to the tail, and laid the ointment gently on with a stick, 
from the head to the tail. The next morning twelve of the 
lambs died; the remainder of the lambs I took to the house. 
I had the cows milked, and gave the milk to the lambs. 
When Mr. Edwards’s assistant came, he said it was the 
man’s mistake, and the conversation passed as before stated 
by the man. I said, if you had meant it for “dipping,” why 
did you tell my man to rub it along the back? He said, 
well it may be used in that way, by taking water afterwards, 
and throwing it along the back. I said, w T hy did you not 
tell the man that, and then this would not have happened. 
He said he thought the man knew, by his asking ; and dip- 
ping was so common, that if 1 did not know how to do it, I 
should have got some one who did. He brought some stuff 
with him to be put into boiling milk, and some chalk, in 
case they should scour. 1 afterwards saw the assistant in 
the shop, and we talked about the sheep and Bigg’s wash. 
I said, 1 did not believe that wash was ever sent out without 
directions. Mr. Edwards came in, and said he was sorry for 
what had happened ; and he had rather lose a hundred 
pounds than it had happened; the stuff was right enough 
if properly used ; and all I blame Davies for, is sending it 
without directions ; and if he had been there, it would not 
have been done. Thirty lambs are dead, and more than nine 
others are in a bad state — worse than dead. I do not value 
them at anything; the lambs were worth 1 1, each. The 
lambs were perfectly healthy before using the stuff, and three 
that I did not apply the ointment to are now perfectly well. 
Thomas Morgan , butcher, Pontypool, was called to set a 
value on the lambs. He considered the fifteen he saw dead 
on the floor to have been worth \l. each, and those now alive 
are of very trifling value. 
Richard Steel, surgeon, of Blaenavon. — I analysed the 
pot of ointment, there are 40 grains of arsenic to every ounce ; 
the pot was half full when it came into my hands. It is a 
