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shorn Iamb,” so is he relieved from the effect of the mind on the 
body, and the pain caused from the fire and its consequences is 
the whole amount of his suffering. And, strange to say, this 
suffering does not appear to be to the extent we should imagine 
it to be, nor any thing approaching to it — in some measure I 
admit accounted for by a diversion of feeling to the parts con- 
fined by the twitch and cords by which the animal is made secure. 
It would be endless were I to recount the instances I have wit- 
nessed leading to this conclusion, but I will recapitulate the last. 
It was the case of the same horse Mr. Turner operated upon at 
Croydon, which was fired two or three years afterwards, on the 
opposite leg, by Mr. Peacock, of Basingstoke. 
Apprehensive that, from his high courage — indeed, 1 may say 
bad temper — that some accident might occur, and also with a 
view to see that the operation was not superficially performed, 
I rode to Basingstoke to witness it. To my surprise, I found 
my old favourite horse standing perfectly quiet during this ap- 
parently horrible process, with merely his other fore leg buckled 
up, and a twitch on his nose. 1 do not, however, stop here. 
The moment he was released, and his head turned towards home, 
he squeaked and leaped, and very nearly escaped out of my 
servant’s hand. Neither must I even stop here. Although the 
operation was a severe one — the injury being a severe one — he 
appeared in nowise to regard it, not even pointing out the foot, 
or shewing any signs of suffering afterwards, although, as I shall 
presently shew, exceedingly impatient under the effects of a 
comparatively milk-and-water treatment. On the contrary, oil 
the third day after the operation, he took a most extraordinary 
leap out of the window of his box, and joined Mr. Chute’s 
hounds, being nearly the death of some of them, an account of 
which appeared in the pages of the Sporting Magazine. 
Now, how is this to be accounted for ? Here is a horse of a 
decidedly irritable temper — so much so that the sight of an old 
woman in a red cloak would throw him into a profuse sweat, and 
wdio, when a little stimulating spirit was rubbed into his coronet, 
after hunting, in relief of his feet, which were always rather 
queer, would paw till he nearly pawed up his stall, and was 
obliged to be beaten to make him desist; who, when blistered, 
would have torn the flesh by mouthfuls if he could have got at 
it ; here is a horse, I say, that exhibited such sensitiveness under 
circumstances which would scarcely affect the feeling or temper 
of a petted child, appearing totally regardless of the effects of a 
red hot iron penetrating his flesh in at least twenty directions. 
Again : — About the same period, being on my road to the town 
of Reading, I saw, on my approach to a blacksmith’s house, 
