A DISSERTATION ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. 641 
What recketh he his rider’s angry stir, 
His flattering holla, or his stand I say ? 
What cares he now for curb, or pricking spur? 
For rich caparisons or trappings gay ? 
He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, 
For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. 
Look! when a painter would surpass the life 
In limning out a well-proportioned steed, 
His art, with nature’s workmanship at strife. 
As if the dead the living should exceed: 
So did this horse excel a common one 
Ill shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. 
Round hoofed, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long. 
Broad breast, full eyes, small head, and nostril wide. 
High crest, shoit ears, straight legs and passing strong, 
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide. 
Look what a horse should have, he did not lack 
Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 
Sometimes he scuds far off, and there he stares. 
Anon he starts at stirring of a feather: 
To bid the wind abase, he now prepares. 
And if he run or fly, they know not whether. 
For through his mane and tail the high wind sings. 
Fanning the hairs, which heave like feathered wings. 
Paddy Blake says, and I perfectly agree with him, that he 
questions whether so much poetry and truth are to be found in 
any modern book of poems, as are contained in these few lines ; 
and, besides, there is a reality, an enthusiasm, a vrai-semhlance 
about them, which no man but a real hunting' horseman could 
have imparted.” 
As for me, I shall love the bard of Avon the more on account 
of this new light in which he appears, and devote to him a few 
more of my two-minute snatches from professional business, or 
his and my choicest pleasures; and I hope that you will un¬ 
starch a little (’twou’d do you no harm if you oftener do it), and 
admit this scrawl. Let Mr. Paddy, however, have all the credit 
of the thing—he has my thanks ; and you know what I think 
of and feel towards you. 
A Hunting Vet. 
A DISSERTATION ON THE EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. 
PART' H. 
By B RACY Clark, F.R.S.y Member of the Royal 
Institute of France. 
In the preceding part, or memoir, I endeavoured to oonsider 
the true origin and nature of this disease, and why, at times, it 
assumed such a very sudden and fatal termination, viz. from the 
