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some veterinary surgeons were called by him who swore that 
there was not the least pretence for saying that the horse 
had a contracted foot, or that he was lame, or in any 
way unsound. 
A gentleman named Holmes , a veterinary surgeon, who had 
had some very considerable experience in his profession, and 
for some years examined and passed horses at Calcutta for 
the Bengal army, said that both the feet were of the same 
size, and as good and sound a pair of feet as he ever saw in 
his life, and that the horse had been lamed by rasping the 
heel down in shoeing. 
The horse was in the immediate neighbourhood, and his 
Lordship asked the jury if they would like to see him and 
judge for themselves, but they declined. 
While the case was proceeding, the plaintiff sent for Pro- 
fessor Spooner, who came at once, and left the court to 
examine the horse, and after doing so, returned into court 
again, but the professor was not called into the witness-box 
to give the result of his examination. 
After Mr. Macauley had summed up his evidence, and 
Mr. Chambers replied upon the whole case, 
His Lordship very carefully summed up, when the jury 
retired to consider their verdict, and, after an hour’s de- 
liberation, returned a verdict for the defendant. 
MISCELLANEA. 
MANNER OE OBTAINING WATER BY BUSHMEN IN THE 
DESERT. 
Dr. Livingstone says, “ the Bushmen are 'real nomads, 
never rearing any domestic animal except the dog, or culti- 
vating the soil. They follow the wild animals in their migra- 
tions, as wolves are said in America to accompany the herds 
of buffaloes, and prey upon them as they range from place to 
place. Our author describes them as possessing thin wiry 
forms, capable of great exertion under severe privations, of 
low stature, but not (as is commonly believed) absolutely 
