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cartilages shall altogether disappear, the former and natural structure 
be resumed, and become in the highest degree elastic and pliable 
in the space of a few weeks, or at all 1 Are not these osselets on 
the cuneiform bones, and entirely unconnected with the interposing 
cartilage, things of very rare occurrence 1 Is it possible to distin- 
guish them from spavin, or the disappearance of the cartilage and 
the formation of bone 1 and would it not be opening a door to all 
kinds of dispute and roguery, if the existence and harmlessness of 
such excrescences were admitted 1 
MISCELLANEA. 
The late Judge Vaughan. 
In horse causes he never had his equal ; for he knew the frame 
of a horse, and the whole veterinary pharmacopoeia, as well as 
Coleman himself : and he knew more ; every horse-dealer dreaded 
him. There was no telling him a lie about stifles, ring-bones, 
splinters, frogs, and the like : — he knew more about those, and 
all other diseases of the horse, than the best groom in England. 
And he had a singular taste in managing a horse cause, one which 
will hardly appear credible except to those who knew him on the 
midland circuit. He not only examined the questionable horse 
himself, but he almost invariably had the horse not exactly pro- 
duced in court, but at the court-door ! — “ Gentlemen,” he would 
say to the jury, before he began to examine his own witnesses, 
iC the horse is at the door : be so kind as to judge for yourselves.” 
There was an apparent candour about this, backed as it was by his 
great knowledge of the horse, which rarely failed with a country 
jury. The fact is, he always gave the jury a beautiful lecture on 
the horse, and they thought that it was almost impossible for such 
a man to be mistaken. There was not much public harm done by 
this prejudice in his favour, for, in the numerous horse causes 
which have come under our notice, we have invariably found faults 
on both sides. 
