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PIG-DOCTORING EXTRAORDINARY. 
made along the ancient drove-way through the centre of the 
Highlands to the city of York. In England the line is still pre¬ 
served, extending south of Falkirk to Yorkshire, and holding a 
direct course over the pastoral and mountain districts of the bor¬ 
ders. In Scotland, however, the prescriptive immemorial right 
of our countrymen was gradually infringed upon, and ultimately 
taken away: local turnpike acts were procured, enabling road 
trustees in the intervening Scottish counties to interrupt the right 
of way; and from less to more the hardships went on increasing, 
till at length the Highlander was completely shut out of his an¬ 
cient path. He was then compelled to take the dry dusty turn¬ 
pike road, which is miserably ill accommodated with suitable 
resting-places for the stock ; and where, in addition to heavy and 
increasing toll-dues, great numbers of the sheep die from affright 
and fatigue. The wild mountain animals, introduced at once 
from the solitary glen and hill side to the various objects of a 
public highway, the coaches, carriages, &c., which perpetually 
interrupt their progress, are thrown into a disease which the 
shepherds very aptly term the trembling ,—the sheep literally trem¬ 
ble to death : out of one drove we have heard of scores falling of 
this disease .—Inverness Courier. 
Drink for Horses. 
Some of the innkeepers on the western road have adopted the 
practice, recommended by a member of the Bath Agricultural 
Society, of boiling the com given to horses, and giving them the 
water to drink; and they believe that three bushels of oats or 
barley, &c. so prepared, will keep the horses in better condition 
for working than four bushels in a crude state .—Morning Herald . 
Pig-doctoring Extraordinary. 
An elderly man, named William Reynolds, a poor but indus¬ 
trious weaver in Bethnal-green, appeared yesterday before the 
sitting magistrate, to seek redress under the following circum¬ 
stance :— 
The applicant stated that he kept a pig, which a few days ago 
appearing to him to be unwell, he asked Mr. Grace, a pig-doc¬ 
tor, to give his opinion relative to the animal. Mr. Grace, the 
pig-doctor, having examined the pig, told him that the pig had 
only got a bit of a cold, or what is commonly called the shivers, 
and that he would give it a comfortable drink in the shape of a 
bottle of medicine. Witness, being a very poor man, asked the 
doctor what the price would be; and on being told it would be 
\s..2d., he agreed that the pig should take it. The doctor then 
gave the pig a dose of warm water, and went away, intimating his 
