ON HEPATITIS IN THE OX. 
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far from Coulsden church, in the after part of the run, he lost a 
fore shoe, or rather missed a shoe, in gallopping across a turnip 
field. He immediately took his horse into a lane hard by, and 
dismounted, and got out his sandal, which is always appended in 
a bag to his saddle. Owing to the fidgettiness and anxiety of his 
horse to get after the hounds again (for they were still running), 
he had some trouble to accomplish the secure buckling on of the 
sandal: however, with the assistance of a boy to hold his horse, 
he did buckle it fast on, and then rode after the hounds, and 
finished his hunt, and rode nineteen miles home afterwards, and 
all without any moving or disarrangement of the sandal, or the 
slightest injury to his horse’s foot. 
Had my cousin been a novice or a bungler at putting the 
sandal on, he could not have accomplished any thing with it: 
before his horse had made three strides, the probability is the 
sandal would have been cast into the air. But, in order to guard 
against any such failure, in the first place, prior to taking the 
sandal with him at all, he took care to have it properly fitted by 
the farrier to his horse’s foot at the time the fore shoes-were off 
for the purpose of shoeing; and, in the second place, he was 
well aware, in putting it on, that, unless each strap was drawn 
quite tight, and the pads adjusted properly, before either strap was 
buckled, the sandal must share the fate of any loosely-nailed shoe, 
viz., be thrown off the foot. 
If there are any who suppose I have been silly or hardy enough 
to propose the sandal as o,permanent shoe, I can only repeat, for the 
hundredth time, that I never offered it as any thing more than a 
temporary substitute for the nailed shoe; and from its lightness, 
portability, and convenience, found it the very thing I had been 
for years seeking for to take hunting with me. I am quite con¬ 
scious it will never answer its intended purpose in the hands of 
those who are either uninformed or uncareful how they put it and 
buckle it on; although this is an operation effected in a couple of 
minutes by any one who chooses to understand it. 
ON HEPATITIS IN THE OX. 
Dy Mr. S. Brown, Melton Mowhray. 
As the ox is an animal which has a gall-bladder, no doubt can 
be entertained as to his liver being subject to occasional inflamma¬ 
tory attacks; and, when we consider the occasional hardships that 
he endures, and the sudden changes in the (quantity and (piality of 
his food, we may, in some measure, account for the fre(iuency with 
