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(which latter is a tedious job) : he engaged that he would perform 
the whole operation on twenty-two animals in one day; or he 
would kill and take the skin off fifty in the same time. This would 
have been a prodigious task ; for it is considered a good day’s 
work to skin and stake the hides of fifteen or sixteen animals. 
“ One circumstance Ynay be added before we altogether quit our 
present subject. A tribe of Indians was located for awhile in one 
of the back settlements, when one of the divisions of our troops 
fell suddenly upon them, and all but annihilated them. The chief 
Indian has always one or two picked horses kept ready for any 
urgent occasion. On one of these, an old white horse, the cacique 
sprang, taking with him his little son. The horse had neither 
bridle nor saddle. To avoid the shots, the Indian rode in the 
peculiar method of his nation, namely, with an arm round the 
horse’s neck, and one leg only on its back. Thus hanging on one side, 
he was seen patting the horse’s head, and talking to him. The 
pursuers urged every effort in the chace. The commandant three 
times changed his horse, but all in vain. The old Indian father 
and his son escaped, and were free. What a fine picture can we 
form in our mind ! — the naked, bronze-like figure of the old man with 
his little boy, riding like a Mazeppa on the white horse, and 
leaving far behind him the host of his pursuers.’’ 
Y. 
TWO CASES OF THE EPIDEMIC PREVAILING AMONG 
THE CATTLE OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
By John Tombs, M.R.C.V.S., Stratford-on-Avon. 
March 25, 1847, I WAS requested to attend a yearling calf 
belonging to an extensive agriculturist near Studley Castle, that 
was taken ill yesterday, and died in a few hours after I saw her ; 
likewise a young cow that failed this morning, and died on the 
evening of the 26th instant. The symptoms manifested by the calf 
were widely different from those of the cow : the symptoms of 
the calf indicated phrenitis — quick breathing — loss of voluntary 
motion — she staggered and tumbled down. Eyes drawn into the 
orbits — pupils dilated — opacity of transparent cornea : when down 
she tumbled about as though in a fit, with the muscles of head, 
neck, shoulder, and fore extremities, dreadfully convulsed : when 
standing, convulsive twitchings of the head — nose elevated and 
^.dry — pulse exceedingly quick : when walking had a peculiar gait — 
