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EDITORIAL REMARKS. 
true-hearted, the soul of honour and chivalry, it would have 
shaken off the weight of many a year to have broken one lance : 
but, at present, we have thoughts and remembrances that suit 
not with jousts and tournaments;’^ yet we do tell him, but 
in such terms, and with such feelings as, 
Brotlier should a brolher dare 
To gentle exercise and proof of arms, 
that his trumpet shall not again sound at the barrier, without a 
ready answer from ours; and the guerdon shall be, the honestest 
and broadest smile on the countenance of our readers; the heartiest 
laugh between ourselves when the fray is o’er; and the happy con¬ 
sciousness that the cause—the great cause sacred to both—is 
benefitted, and not degraded, by contests like ours. At present 
we proceed to unriddle the riddle. 
It could hardly be supposed that we did not deeply feel the 
apparent apathy with which our veterinary brethren seemed to 
regard the journal devoted to their interest: seemed to regard it — 
for we heard from all quarters where there was the possibility 
for them to reach us, expressions of the warmest approbation of 
the course we pursued, and good wishes for our success : but 
our bantling could not live on air; and while w'e were surrounded 
by friends, The Veterinarian was starving. Perhaps we 
had no right—w^e began at length to think that we had no right 
—to be surprised or angry at-this. We examined the various 
journals of human medicine, and we found that the most pros¬ 
perous of them had quite as few, and the majority of them, 
fewer, bond fide correspondents than we had. Nay, one friend 
told us, in good bluff English, that w^e had no right to com¬ 
plain at all; that if we had the honour, and the other good 
things which fall to the lot of the editors (he little thought how 
few they were, and by how many annoyances they were more than 
counterbalanced), we must not look to the veterinary world to 
maintain our literary children for us. As the world goes, he was 
right; there are too many eager enough to receive the pleasure 
and advantage resulting from the labour of others, but who do 
not think they are compelled to stir a finger in the way of as- 
