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which a bandage had been previously tied a little first 
above the place where the wourali was introduced.- 1 ~ L - 1 
He walked about as usual, and ate his food as though 
all were right. After an hour had elapsed, the 
bandage was untied, and ten minutes after death 
overtook him. 
A she-ass received the wourali poison in the 
shoulder, and died apparently in ten minutes. An 
incision was then made in its windpipe, and through 
it the lungs were regularly inflated for two hours 
with a pair of bellows. Suspended animation re¬ 
turned. The ass held up her head, and looked 
around; but the inflating being discontinued, she 
sunk once more in apparent death. The artificial 
breathing was immediately recommenced, and con¬ 
tinued without intermission for two hours more. 
This saved the ass from final dissolution; she rose 
up, and walked about; she seemed neither in agi¬ 
tation nor in pain. The wound, through which the 
poison entered, was healed without difficulty. Her 
constitution, however, was so severely affected, that 
it was long a doubt if ever she would be well again. 
She looked lean and sickly for above a year, but 
began to mend the spring after; and by Midsummer 
became fat and frisky. 
The kind-hearted reader will rejoice on learning 
that Earl Percy, pitying her misfortunes, sent her 
down from London to Walton Hall, near Wakefield. 
There she goes by the name of Wouralia. Wouralia 
shall be sheltered from the wintry storm; and when 
summer comes, she shall feed in the finest pasture. 
