ARMY APPOINTMENTS IN THE INDIAN SERVICE. 347 
keeps three horses since his staff promotion, one for his 
children’s gharrie, and a pair to take Mrs. M. to the band in 
the evening, replies, Why, yes, a little; J’ve kept horses 
the last two and thirty years, and ought to know something 
about them.” (Oh ! fie. Dr. M., you know you only kept a 
pony for the first seven years of your griffinage, and it was 
on your getting a regiment as assistant-surgeon that you 
sold the pony and bought a horse warranted by Ramasawmy 
perfectly sound, and quiet to ride and drive in single and 
double harness, and to carry a lady. Don’t you recollect 
when you pointed out that swelling under the near knee to 
Ramasawmy, and said he could not ^oyou ? You knew what 
a spavin was when you saw it!) 
President .—I wish you would ask Mr. Caustic a few 
questions.” M. clears his throat, and asks the Young 
Vet.” how he could account for a horse that had a worm 
in his eye going weak in the loins. Our young friend 
answers, he never knew it to be the case himself; there 
could be no connection between the two maladies; one was 
in the head and the other near his tail; he had heard such a 
thing spoken of before at mess one night, but he never met 
any one who had seen it. It was a thing he would give every 
attention to when he met with a case, but he must be allowed 
to doubt, and to treat it as a popular error till he was con¬ 
vinced of the fact from personal observation. Here Dr. M. 
angrily says he must not call what was a well-known fact a 
popular error. 
Morecroft Brown comes to our young friend’s assistance, 
and says that during his thirty-three years’ Indian experi¬ 
ence he never once met with a single case where the two 
affections had been seen together; and even if he had met 
with one or two cases this would not be proof sufficient to 
establish it as a fact, in the face of some hundreds he 
had seen destroyed for weak loins that had never had a worm 
in the eye. 
Doctor M.’s next question was how' he could account 
for geldings being proof against weak loins. Our young 
friend answered, with a smile, that Mr. Brown had a 
gelding destroyed only a few days before for being weak in 
the loins.” 
Dr. M. suggested that some other member should question 
our young friend ; but there being no volunteers, the pre¬ 
sident again remonstrates on the absurdity of such a board, 
and asks Coleman Moorcroft Brown to put a question, 
so that they might be able conscientiously to put their names 
to the proceedings. C. M. B, asks the distinguishing 
