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ness a certificate, which witness took the next day with the horse 
to Mr. Milling. The distance was about eighteen miles: the 
horse went so badly that witness could hardly get him along the 
road. Witness saw Mrs. Milling, and said he had brought the 
horse back, and that Mr. Topham did not like him, as he was 
not sound. Mrs. Milling declined receiving the horse, and said 
her husband was gone into Wales. 
On cross-examination, he said they gave the gelding three 
feeds a-day and bran mashes ; but he fed very badly. Witness, 
when he took the horse back to Mr. Milling’s, could not get him 
to go more than three or four miles an hour; witness did not 
stop to bait till he came to Mr. Milling’s house, and then, 
when he was refused, he returned back to the Horse Shoe, at 
Kingsley, where he stopped a quarter of an hour—altogether 
twenty-six miles: he did not have him rubbed down, but turned 
him into the stable for a quarter of an hour to feed. 
Charles Gorst is ostler to Mr. Topham. When the horse was 
brought home he looked very poorly, and held his head under 
the manger. He had the feeding of the horse, and attended to 
him. He gave him three feeds of corn a-day, and cleaned him 
twice a-day. He never ate his food so well as another horse. 
He had often occasion to take away part of the corn that was 
given to him. He never said to any body that he would not eat 
at all, but that he was a bad feeder. He was not fit for work 
all the time he was there, which was between a fortnight and 
three weeks. 
Cross-examined.—Witness is groom to Mr. Topham, and his 
name is also over the door of the public-house at Northwich, as 
landlord. Witness is not the proprietor of the house. The last 
witness started about seven in the morning to return the horse to 
Mr. Milling, and returned about four or five o’clock. 
Mr. Topham is an auctioneer and sheriff’s officer, and there¬ 
fore cannot take out a licence as a publican in his own name. 
Mr. Topham’s nephew said he took the horse back to Mr. 
Milling, after he had been examined by Mr. Holford. He went 
very badly indeed, and not more than four or five miles an hour. 
Witness fed him twice on the road, with a pound of meal and 
water each time. He did not take it freely, as a horse would that 
was travelling. On arriving at Mr. Milling’s house, he took the 
horse into the stable and tied him up, and then went to the house 
and demanded back the £25..10s. It was refused, and he im¬ 
mediately went away. He did not look back, nor did he ob¬ 
serve the horse running after him as fast as he could. 
Mr. Thomas Holford is a member of the Veterinary College. 
Examined a brown gelding for Mr. Topham on the 18th of last 
