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MR. CHERRY’S REPLY 
said, she seemed as large as ever, and that the calf, or something 
where that ought to be, was still easily felt. On visiting her I 
found the cow much improved in condition. A substance on the 
off side was easily to be felt. On examining per rectum I could 
feel a large substance which seemed hard and solid, and gave no 
pain to the cow on being pressed. There had never been any dis¬ 
charge per vaginam from the first. As the cow seemed doing well, 
and had not taken the bull, I advised him to feed and kill her. 
The secret would then out, and if there was no calf he could apply 
to the seller for some renumeration. She was killed the other 
day, and on opening her, the man said, “ the womb was nearly as 
large as a bushel measure.” On cutting into it they found the calf 
curled up like a dog. Every part was fully formed, although in a 
state of decomposition. I was unaware of their killing her, or 
would have had a minute examination. 
Leek, 11th Nov. 1849. 
MR. A. CHERRY’S REPLY TO “ SHOEING SMITHS.” 
To the Editor of 11 The Veterinarian .” 
Sir,— ROCHEFOUCAULT is reported to have said, “ that the only 
thing on which he ought to feel surprise, was the power of being 
still able to be surprised.” I confess that such is precisely my 
position at this moment. I looked on The Veterinarian as a 
journal devoted to subjects of science, expressed in scientific, or at 
least plain, language, and in which any subject treated otherwise 
was not admissible. Guess my surprise when, in the three last 
numbers of your Journal I see such articles as those by, or bearing 
a title of, “ Shoeing Smiths.” It may be my dulness which leads 
me in the view which I take of such a farago of nonsense—sen¬ 
tences without meaning—satire without point—laudation the most 
fulsome—wit laboured, but resulting in the most consummate dul¬ 
ness—buffoonery, to which the hacknied lubricity of a clown at a 
country fair would shine bright indeed; to which must be added, 
personal invective and ribaldry so coarsely glozed over that its 
object cannot be concealed : in short, a means taken to abuse, or 
more properly bespatter with filth, in the absence of argument or 
of common sense; displaying to the world the most pitiable of all 
sights, a man forgetful of his dignity and of his self-respect. Well, 
indeed, may a cognomen be assumed. 
As to the mere personality which has been cast against me I 
care not, for the reason of the American, namely, “ that it gave him 
