SHAVING A HORSE. 
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Mr. Meyers (of St. Michael’s Alley, one of the Commissioners) 
asked what objection was made to the charge. 
The defendant declared that he considered the sum of thirty 
shillings, for merely taking the hair off a horse, considerably too 
much, especially as he (defendant) had done a good deal of the 
job himself. 
The hair-dresser declared that the part upon which the de¬ 
fendant had operated was so badly done, that, if it had not been 
shaved again, the coat would have been as rough over the stern as 
a hedgehog, while all the rest was as smooth as the body of a 
new-born babe. 
The defendant said that any horse-clipper would have com- 
pleted the business for a great deal less money. 
The hair-dresser said that was quite impossible. He had 
never shaved a horse before, but it was a regular sweater. 
Mr. Meyers asked the defendant what he generally paid fora 
shave for himself. 
The defendant (feeling his chin). “ Why, two-pence, I think, 
is generally the price.” 
Mr. Meyers.—“Ay, a penny a cheek. Now', how many of 
your jaws do you think would make up the size of a horse?” 
The defendant said there was less delicacy necessary in shaving 
a horse than a man. 
Mr. Meyers.—“ Not a bit more than in shaving an ass.” 
The hair-dresser.—“ Look at the lather, and the chance of a 
kick ! Besides, I w'ent over the beast as clean as possible; 
I turned him out smooth as my hand, down to the fetlock.” 
Mr. Meyers said he was surprised at the refusal to pay thirty 
shillings for the job. Indeed he always thought it impossible to 
perform a thing of the kind, and he believed that to be the gene¬ 
ral opinion; for was it not usual for people to say, when they 
heard a bouncing fib, “ Next comes a horse to be shaved ?” 
The hair-dresser said that it was a very hard matter to shave 
some part of a horse, because the skin here and there hitched 
very much : for his part, he would rather go over a whole 
regiment of soldiers. 
The defendant was then ordered to pay to the hair-dresser the 
thirty shillings, and costs. Morning Herald. 
Export of Live Stock from the Highlands. 
The great occupation of the Highlands, it is well known, is the 
rearing of live stock, and the staple trade of the country its expoit- 
ation to the southern markets. From time immemorial, from 
the period of the Romans down to the days of Rob Roy, and 
even within the last thirty years, the whole of this export was 
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