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tion when it came home to him, and did not like the company 
of the mastiffs, and that for the purpose of curing it of a "" wident 
cough, he tackled him to the waggon between the other hanimals, 
who was very good-natred, though they wasn’t the same breed, 
howsomdever.” 
Plaintiff .—They worried the poor brute in a shocking manner. 
Defendant. —It’s no sich a thing; I’ve used ’em to keep com¬ 
pany with all sorts, and they never falls out with none on ’em. 
They cures the sick hanimals by rubbing ’em into a sweat, as 
they toddles along with the meat. 
Commissioner .—I suppose you cure upon Doctor Long’s prin¬ 
ciple of scrubbing. 
Defendant .—I never know’d it to fail yet, barrin the hanimal 
was too far advanced in a hinside mortification ; and there is 
nothing we’ve found out yet as will serve a dog out with a new 
lot of bowels, nor a man neither. 
Plaintiff .—The poor dog was in such a condition that I didn’t 
know him : 1 understand that he would lie down with fatigue in 
the streets, and the other dogs used to drag him along through 
the mud. 
Defendant. —There’s nothing sarves a dog better than a tum¬ 
ble in the mud; it takes away all the foolish tenderness out of 
him. Besides, I told the gentleman afore I took the dog, that 
I thought he was a going bang into the other world. 
John Mickles (defendant’s feeder) swore that his master cured 
more dogs than any other man, by the simple process of working 
them into passperations” between his two mastiffs. The mas¬ 
tiffs understood their business perfectly well, and what they had 
to cure in every sick un; they goed slow, and he was blowed 
if they didn’t behave themselves to the poor hanimal as was dead 
and gone like a brother, though ’twas moral impossible they 
could a come of the same father and mother. 
The plaintiff insisted that his dog died of cruel treatment. 
Defendant. —Open- the hanimal; anatomise his body, and 
you’il see which on us speaks the truth. 
The feeder .—The dog as come to us for to be cured varn’t fit 
for no hardship; but howsomdever, master can sweat the most 
delicatest of ’em all till they’d eat any thing. Now this here 
dog as died vas a poor unsatisfactory haggravating sort of a 
hanimal as could be brought, for he eat no wittles; and every 
body knows none on us can live upon the hair. 
The Commissioner said, that they could not decide against the 
defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was aware of the doc¬ 
tor’s practice, and no proof had been given that any unusual 
severity had been exercised. Morning Herald. 
