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sheeting, and the most constant attendance on so deserving an 
old servant; but to no effect. The experience of the most en¬ 
lightened practitioners on horses was lost; and Mr. Rudd, from 
motives of humanity, was advised to put an end to his misery 
by bleeding him to death. About ten o’clock, one severe frosty 
night, he was taken down to the common, a few hundred yards 
from the stable, and, on both sides of the neck, struck with a 
large sized instrument, from whence he bled, most freely, not 
less than fifteen or sixteen quarts. The poor animal, quite ex¬ 
hausted, gradually sunk down, stretched out his legs, and died— 
in the opinion of every one present. The cord was removed 
from his neck, and the party went home. Early the next 
morning, the blacksmith to take, off the shoes, the skinner to 
take off the hide, and the pig-breeder to take possession of the 
carcass, were severally in attendance ; but to the astonishment 
of ail, nothing, except the blood, was remaining on the spot, 
without any vestige of the carcass being dragged away. Some 
time after, report was made, that the supposed dead horse was 
near the blacksmith’s shop, at the lower end of the street. He 
was immediately taken under his old master’s care; nutritious 
food offered, which he ate with good appetite ; and, by such 
attention, in the course of ten days, he was restored to perfect 
health and strength, and enabled to perform his regular journey 
to Stockton and back that week; and he now continues in 
better health, spirits and condition, than he has been in for seve¬ 
ral years back. The poor creature, on recovery from his death¬ 
like appearance, had made his way to the adjoining hedge—had 
nipped the short grass, and followed the hedge, along the lanes 
leading from the common,—a distance of not less than half or 
perhaps three quarters of a mile, to where he was found standing 
in the street, very close to the shop of the person who was in¬ 
tended as his executioner .—(John Bull.) 
SPORTING CALCULATIONS. 
1st.— In the course of a long day’s hunting, it is 10 to 1 in 
favour of a bold and good rider, well mounted, that he meets 
any accident at all. 
2d.—Supposing he falls, it is 8 to 1 that either he or his horse 
is materially injured. 
3d.—It is 6 to 1 the horse is hurt, and not the rider. 
4th.—If the rider is hurt, it is 12 to 1 that a bone is not 
broken. 
5th.—It is 20 to 1, if a bone is broken, that the wound is not 
mortal. 
