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geons. Our warrant is still a dead letter, and we remain 
on our old rate of pay. Promotion has been made in our 
presidency, but there is no increase of pay with it; truly an 
empty honour—and one the individual would gladly be 
without, as it increases his subscriptions to his fund, mess, 
&c., &c. 
Again, I warn aspiring vets to think well before they take 
the false leap. Only fancy a great Government like ours 
being obliged to hire a private veterinary surgeon to treat 
their valuable horses. 
The ‘Englishman’ writes: — “ The Government appears 
to be as badly off for horse-doctors as for man-doctors; and 
is obliged to go into the market for ticea veterinary surgeons, 
having none of its own available and at hand. There are 
two batteries of artillery and the Lahore Light Horse at 
Barrackpore with glanders and farcy in the stables, and 
horses being shot in numbers, with no veterinary surgeon 
to look after them; consequently the Government has hired 
a horse-doctor from one of the Calcutta livery stables at 300 
rupees a month. Can it be the case that the ‘vets' in Eng¬ 
land are holding back as well as man-doctors, and want a 
little amalgamating to induce them to come forward? It 
would appear so." 
HORSE WARRANTY.—THE RIG. 
By J. Cooper, M.R.C.V.S., Market Weighton. 
Mr. Dyer says:—“In racing language, and in hunting 
phraseology, ahorse means an entire animal, therefore if a 
horse is to be considered sound he should be entire. But it 
has been the custom for centuries to emasculate animals, and 
to consider an animal so operated on as a sound one, as 
regards this part of his animal economy." 
Two propositions are here laid down : 
1. That a horse to be sound must be entire. 
2. That, the custom being to emasculate, an animal emas¬ 
culated may also be considered sound. 
Assuming Mr. Dyer to have here exhausted the category 
of soundness, the logical deduction from these premises is, 
that an animal neither entire nor yet completely emasculated 
is not sound. 
By rig is ordinarily meant an animal with one testicle 
only taken away. 
