FEROCIOUS CATTLE. 
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of the horse investigated in different diseases, particularly in af¬ 
fections of the respiratory system, I am persuaded that the pa¬ 
thology of that most valuable animal would receive thereby con¬ 
siderable elucidation : — 
Water---.. 847 
Colouring matter ..-.-. 98 
Albumen coagulated at 160^ -- 32 
Free carbon..-.. 10 
Fibrin pressed and dried .. 7 
Salts and other extractive matter —.. 6 
1000 
Lancet. 
Ferocious Cattle. 
Sir Walter Scott speaking .—Talking of a mischievous bull, 
puts me in mind of a similar case, which I myself witnessed, 
many years ago, in Edinburgh. I was proceeding from the old 
to the new town, by the earthen mound, at the head of which I 
was led for a few minutes to look at a bull that had got into an 
enclosure there, after the unmerciful butcher lads had driven it 
fairly mad. The crowd that gathered on the outside of the fence 
increased the brute’s fierceness. At last they began to cast ropes 
over its horns and around its neck, thereby to pull it to a strong 
hold, that it might be slain in the place where it was, which 
drove it to its most desperate fury. Its eyes nqw glared mad¬ 
ness, there were handfuls of foam flying from its mouth, with 
its fore feet it pawed the ground, throwing lumps of earth as 
high as the adjoining houses, and it bellowed so as to make one 
quake. It was any thing but an agreeable sight, so I moved 
away homewards. But before I got to the foot of the mound, 
an alarming shout caused me to look back, when I perceived 
the animal at no great distance behind me, coming on wdth all 
its rage. I had just time to spring to the top of the wall that 
lined the footpath, and to behold its future progress. 
“ I shudder to this hour when I think of what immediately I 
saw. Among the people that were near me and in jeopardy, 
was a young lady, and as you have said, she wore a red mantle, 
which is a very offensive colour to many of the brute creation. 
As I did, she also made for the wall, but had neither time nor 
strength to gain its top ere the infuriated animal drove towards 
her. She turned her back, however, to the inaccessible erni- 
