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were instrumental in obtaining, and I find it perfectly impos¬ 
sible to sleep in the front of my house on the Sunday night. 
The cruelty practised upon the cattle, in beating them into the 
' rings,’ no person can believe who has not seen it; and, as it 
is a matter very easily to be seen, I hope some of the committee 
(now sitting) will see it personally. Supposing a salesman to 
have twenty beasts (which could not be tied up), he will have 
them all with their heads in and their tails out; they form a 
ring; and in order to discipline tliem to stand in that manner, 
the drovers are obliged to goad them behind and knock them 
upon the noses. They strike them with great force upon the 
noses, and goad them behind, by which means they form them¬ 
selves into ‘ a ringso that, at the period I speak of, there is 
a great deal of unnecessary cruelty. The cattle will stand in 
that manner, so perfectly disciplined, that, at breakfast time, 
there shall be twenty or thirty rings” of this kind standing in 
the middle of the market. If the ‘‘ ring” is broken by any 
means, they are all in the greatest anxiety to get them in again ; 
and when the drovers are obliged to separate those rings,” and 
drive the cattle away, they have a great deal of trouble, and the 
labour of the men is excessive to get one single beast out. In¬ 
deed, if you can conceive first getting the cattle into a ring,” 
as I have stated, and if one is sold out of the ring at eleven in 
the day, the beast is ordered to be driven through fifteen hundred 
cattle, whichever way he goes out of the market, and the man 
is goading that beast all the way—if you can conceive men com¬ 
pelled to exercise this cruelty, they will not be very delicate of 
the manner in which they use it after a time !’ ” 
Mr. Charles Merritt, who had been ^ a salesman about eight 
years,’ thus described the scene, p.44:— 
‘ I have stood behind . eight of these off-droves, and the 
cruelty which is necessarily exercised to get them to standro- 
perly is very great indeed, and which, by tying up, might be 
totally removed, and is the cause of the great complaint which 
exists of the bruises and the wildness of the different animals 
when passing through the streets. I will describe simply the 
manner in which it arises. Perhaps after an hour’s violence has 
been exercised towards the cattle, to get them to stand about 
twenty in each circle, after perhaps an hour’s violence, or nearly 
so, before we can get them to stand, the beasts are knocked about 
the hocks sometimes, sometimes about the head. If the head 
turns outward, they are beat about the head till they are turned 
inward. The great cause of the inhumanity described arises 
from this circumstance, that when a bullock is driven, perhaps 
from the centre of the market, by the butchers’ drovers, that 
