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of them could not walk home. This was at the latter end of February 
or the beginning of March. He gave £12 15s. for them (8s. 6d. each), 
and sold them for about 6s. 6d. a piece. 
His Lordship. —Had these got the rot ?—No doubt about it. 
Mr. Collins (to his Lordship).—They did not tell us this before. 
Plaintiff. —I bade money and they were knocked down to me 
immediately. 
Mr. Collins. —They were tegs ?—You can call them lambs or tegs. 
Witness remarked that he bought them because the price was 
tempting. 
Mr. Collins. —Where did you put them ?—In a little paddock. 
Witness stated further that four or five of the ewes had been opened 
since the 10th of April, and every one had flukes in it. He had no marsh 
land on his farm. He had no land near the River Biss. He sold 124 
out of the 154 ewes (one of the other flocks) to Mr. Smith, of M inter¬ 
bourne Stoke. 
Re-examined .—The paddock was two miles away from Mr. Butler’s 
sheep. He had lost no other sheep from fluke. He had had one out of 
the 154 flock killed on the previous day, and the liver (which was in 
Court) was perfectly sound. 
By his Lordship. —He had had three’or four of Mr. Butler’s sheep killed 
to see if the disease was latent, and though they showed no outward signs 
of disease they were as full of flukes as they could hold. 
Edward Snelgrove, who drove the flock from Bromham, stated that he 
reached Bratton about six to a quarter past, and there met Carpenter, 
Mr. Jones’s shepherd. He did not allow the sheep to stop on the road. 
He had also thirty lambs. 
His Lordship .—Are those the thirty that were diseased ? 
Plaintiff was recalled and questioned on this point, as Mr. Collins 
suggested that for anything they knew they might be those which 
afterwards came into plaintiff’s possession. Plaintiff explained that 
they were thirty that Mr. Francis had bought at Marlborough Fair. He 
did not know whether they had the rot or not, but he heard him say he 
sold them cheap. Mr. Francis was his brother-in-law. 
Snelgrove then stated that he was in Bratton Drove separating the 
lambs from the sheep for about half an hour. He had never told any¬ 
body that the sheep were feeding by the side of the road while 
he was separating them. Of course he could not stop their mouths 
(laughter). They picked as they went along. Fie kept them moving 
all the time. 
Mr. Francis said he bought thirty lambs at Marlbro’ Fair in November 
at 16s. each. He scarcely thought that was the price of sound animals. 
He was passing through the fair, and the owner asked 25s. a piece, but 
he subsequently took 16s. They were driven home with plaintiff’s 
sheep. One of the thirty died and the rest he sold. The farm they 
were put on lay very low, and was very wet indeed. 
By Mr. Collins .—Bratton Drove was a hard stone road, not a grass 
lane. It was two miles from his farm. Last Christmas he said to Mr. 
Morris that he was to take the lambs and give him what he made of 
them. 
Isaac Watkins , bailiff to plaintiff, said he had his doubts about the 
sheep in the early part of January. 
His Lordship.—Is the fluke disease infectious ?—No. If sound sheep 
were put on good dry wholesome ground with sheep that were diseased 
the sound ones would not take it. 
Stephen Carpenter , shepherd to plaintiff, remembered the 100 ewes 
