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with this as I am. Her heart is with yours in the matter, and she will 
thank you from the bottom of her heart, a somewhat hackneyed term, 
but one that conveys a good deal. I am obliged to your Committee who 
worked out the details, as I know the trouble involved in getting up a 
Testimonial; and as to giving me my portrait, allow me to say that you 
could not have given me anything I like better, and when 1 say it is 
acceptable to me, I must also tell you that my friends in Wolver¬ 
hampton are delighted with the idea ; so that if you had considered the 
matter for twelve months you could not have selected anything that I 
should have appreciated more. Such, gentlemen, is the story, and now 
I shall give you the moral. Very early in life I came across these few 
lines, which I have seen the advisability of acting up to—they were 
thus: 
“Weigh well the end.” 
“ Deem nothing small or mean.” 
“ For steps have a strange fatality.” And 
“ Many a ponderous gate hangs upon a little hinge.” 
Take my advice, “ Weigh well the end,” and see if there is not some¬ 
thing in the future that can be worked out. I had it when I came here, 
and up to the present time that future has been a grand one. I have 
already reached a point which at first I did not think possible, and let 
me tell you it is a sore, and sorry point to me, to leave this Institu¬ 
tion, but I am satisfied I have taken the right step; and, gentlemen, 
wherever I am, whether in the West End or in the Country, you can 
always be assured of the advice of your old teacher. 
Professor Pritchard, whose speech was frequently interrupted by the 
acclamation of his audience, then left the theatre amidst tumultuous 
applause. 
BUYING DIPLOMAS. 
Gentlemen, — I was very glad to see the letter of “ Pro Bono 
Publico” in last month’s Veterinarian , for I consider it most unfair that 
Students or Practitioners should, after obtaining the Highland and 
Agricultural Certificate, be allowed to buy the Diploma of the Royal 
College of Veterinary Surgeons, and immediately add L. and E. to 
their cards and brass-plates, leading the public to believe they are 
doubly qualified. I can assure you that the above-named arrangement 
has given much dissatisfaction to the majority of veterinary surgeons. 
I enclose my card. Yours, &c., 
London Only. 
To the Editors of the Veterinarian. 
UNQUALIFIED INSPECTORS. 
Gentlemen, —As we always look to our friend the Veterinarian to 
state our grievances, will you allow me a small space to ask whether 
some steps cannot be taken to prohibit Local Authorities from appointing 
cow-leeches and other unqualified individuals, as Inspectors under the 
“ Contagious Diseases Animals Act.” 1 need not tell you it is both 
annoying and hurtful to a veterinary surgeon to have a class of men 
parading about in their practice, whose ignorance is only exceeded by 
their impudence. Yours, &c., 
To the Editors of the Veterinarian. M.R.C.V.S. 
