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Next, in both fore-feet dead lame I fell, 
And my good master ’gan to think 
All hope of further gain was gone; 
But no! a scientific man called in, declared 
That I was suffering from navicular disease, 
And then most cleverly my nerves did cut ; 
And thus deprived of pain and sense, 
I walked and trotted with freedom and with ease. 
And after giving time the wounds to heal, 
And on my body flesh and fat to put, 
I was in market-fair once more shown off, 
And once again became the means by which 
Unwary men were cruelly undone. 
But even yet my troubles did not cease. 
For spavin large, developed in my hock, 
From which much agony and pain I did endure 
In spite of iron hot, of blister, and of punch. 
And after being punished thus without avail, 
My master most unmercifully did pound 
The skin, to make it swell, and thus the spavin hide; 
And that my action might be equalized, 
He further, on my other hock 
The same barbarity did perpetrate. 
And now, with orbits puffed, with eyebrows 
Dyed, and bishoped teeth, I stand with 
Trembling limbs and knees o’erbowed, 
To wait the termination of my most unhappy fate, 
Bewailing man’s inhumanity to us, the brute creation, 
Who, championless, are born to work, to suffer and to die. 
—Thomas Wallet, Principal Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
{Reprinted from the “Animal World.”) 
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Pasteur Institute— An international institute named after 
Mr. Pasteur is to be erected in Paris at an estimate cost of 80,- 
000 francs. The subscription list is open to the world at large, 
and will no doubt soon be covered. 
No Pleuro-Pneumonia in Kentucky. —Dr. E. F. Hagyard, 
State Veterinarian of Kentucky, reports that State is now free 
from pleuro-pneumonia, and that with the assistance of Federal 
Veterinarian Dr. Wray 111 cattle were killed and buried and 
