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then destroyed. Of the others, one died in three minutes, an¬ 
other in sixteen, and the third in twenty-five minutes. 
h. Dogs weakened before the experiment. 
One dog only was experimented on here. He had been much 
debilitated by a previous bleeding. He died at the expiration of 
six minutes. Death seems to be produced sooner in an animal 
that is placed in a vertical than in a horizontal position. In the 
first position, probably, the arrival of the air into the cerebral 
venous system is favoured : and here also death is hastened by 
the previous debilitated state of the animal. 
[To be continued.] 
Uftrnimvi) 3Iuvi0pi:uli^nre. 
A Blow—an old Sprain—or a Splent? 
Hole v. Mountstephen. 
[We insert this trial, because several old acquaintances of our 
own and of many of our readers are introduced—because the 
evidence which they gave was most straightforward and con¬ 
sistent, in despite of an exceedingly severe cross-examination 
of one of them—and because it affords another singular proof 
of the glorious uncertainty of the law, incases of this descrip¬ 
tion at least. Had we been in the jury-box, our verdict would 
have been a very different one. Except there was something 
exceedingly rascally in the transaction, we always used to say 
to those who consulted us on these matters, “ Put up with the 
first loss, if you can bring your minds to do it.’^] 
John Jacobs .—I am a carrier; I know the plaintiff; I saw him 
on horseback, two miles from Exeter, at eight on the morning 
of the 28th of July; he passed me, going at the rate of five miles 
an hour. I saw him at Winkleigh, five hours afterwards, twenty 
miles from Exeter. I saw his horse in the stable there, and 
cleaned it down. In rubbing it down, I saw a knob just under 
the knee in the off fore leg on the inside. It made the leg look 
crooked. 1 examined it, and it appeared to me as if it had been 
an old grievance; as if the horse had been lame, laid by, and 
then put to work again. I have been accustomed to horses ever 
since I have been able to walkabout. It appeared as if there 
had been a splint, and they had tried to get it back; there was a 
dry “ scud ”on it, as if it had been an old wound healed up. The 
swelling extended from the back of the knee all down the tendon 
to the fetlock joint. On the third of August I took it back ; it 
