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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
gamation with some veterinary production of correlative value 
on the subject of “ soundness,” cannot fail, as we have foretold 
at the outset, to become the foundation of a work most pressingly 
needed by us all, and that is a System OF VETERINARY JURIS- 
PRUDENCE. 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
BRADSHAW V. GAFFNEY. 
Modern Judgment of “ Horse Flesh.”— Every reader, who 
is at all acquainted with the writings of the inimitable Carleton, 
knows what “ switching the primer” means; and we presume that 
most of them are almost conversant with “ Miles Nacopleen,” a 
worthy character in Griffin’s beautiful creation, the Collegians ; 
but, much as they may know of either the one or the other, w r e 
can assure them that a scene occurred at our Quarter Sessions, in 
this city (Armagh), on Thursday se’nnight, which excelled “ Miles,” 
and that the worthy impersonator of that character “ switched the 
primer ” equal to any ever witnessed by Carleton himself. 
The case was brought for trial before the Assistant-Barrister, 
and was this : — 
Joseph Bradshaw, of Lurgan, sued Francis Gaffney, a horse- 
dealer, for compensation for loss sustained by the death of a horse, 
which the former purchased from the latter in Banbridge fair, on 
the 12th of January last. It appeared that the horse in question 
bad been brought from Ballinagar fair, a distance of upwards of 
sixty miles, where he had been purchased on the 6th. He was sold 
to the plaintiff on the 12th, in Banbridge, and died on the 18th — 
six days after the purchase. 
A Mr. Gaffney was called and sworn. — Saw the horse alluded 
to in Ballinagar fair; had no cough; saw him part of the way 
home ; saw him again in Banbridge fair ; was in good health and 
spirits there ; had no appearance of sickness ; there is good stabling 
on the way from Ballinagar to Banbridge ; a horse might give a 
cough occasionally, and yet be sound. 
A young man named Day, an itinerant, whose name appears to 
us to be a burlesque on his intellect ( Night , he should have been 
called, if we may judge by his chaotic ideas of the veterinary pro- 
fession), was next called and examined. — Is a veterinary surgeon ; 
[ Barrister — “ Arose by any other name would smell as sweet!”] 
served seven months to the profession ; does not consider that 
