580 PH RENITS, OR MAD STAGGERS, IN A HORSE. 
smashed about six or eight panes of glass, with their wood-work, 
&c. Turning about, he next ran up Barbican. At the cooper’s shop- 
door, he struck his head against the lintel-post, fell with the force of 
the blow; then took in his mouth a pail, and shook it, and also a 
mat, with several other things in the same way. He then trotted 
across the road, forwards and backwards irregularly, to my shop 
and others, falling and rising alternately, until he met with a one- 
horse chaise, of which vehicle he seized a wheel, and sprung up 
with his fore-foot behind it. The gentleman in the chaise, being 
aroused with the cry of “ mad horse,” leaned back, and whipped 
the enraged animal until he dropped off, and ran his head into the 
shop- window of Mr. Languire, tobacconist, smashing nine panes of 
glass. To the next door he then turned, Mr. Clarke’s radical 
powder shop, broke seven panes, knocked his breakfast-powder 
about, and, ludicrously enough, threw one of the filled papers into 
the street. Then running across the street to Richardson’s, his 
head met the gate-way post, and he fell backwards, wounding him- 
self severely. Turning about, he met with the window of Mr. 
Daniel Beckett, corn-chandler, knocked out near a dozen of his 
panes, and, taking hold of a bag of rape-seed in his mouth, shook 
it like a terrier dog shaking a rat, though it might have measured 
a peck or more. About this time I observed a person with a 
sword in his hand, the wrong way uppermost, applying the hilt to 
the horse ineffectually. Hereupon I seized the sword from his hand, 
and, seeing the mad horse once more on his back lengthwise in 
the fall of the gutter, I thrust the sword into his off-side, near the 
lower rib; and, drawing it rapidly backward, his business was done 
for, when a butcher’s man, armed with a knife, came up, and 
finished the poor creature’s sufferings by cutting its throat. 
Students who have passed their Examination at the 
Royal Veterinary College, London. 
July 2, 1839. 
Mr. E. Higgs, London. 
Mr. J. R. Huntriss, Birmingham. 
Mr. H. W. Sparrow, London. 
Mr. M. Archer, Bungay, Suffolk. 
July 23. 
Mr. James Moon, Kingston- upon-Thames. 
Mr. M. M. Lucas, Liverpool. 
Mr. Richard Jones, Battersea. 
Mr. P. Prendergast, Waterford. 
Mr. J. Wright, Lynn, Norfolk. 
