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bear them out: “ If one buy the devil” they say, “ we must sell 
the devil.” I also agree with Prof. G-amgee: “ It is a mistake to 
suppose that all the sharp practice is on one side,” he says, “I 
have as high an opinion of the honesty of the better class of 
horse-dealers, as of gentlemen who habitually buy and sell horses. 
It is a wonderful fact, but yet it is a fact, that the horse, next to 
man, one of the noblest objects in creation, appears to have a 
tendency to corrupt almost all who deal in him.” 
“ A horse-dealer on his defence, goes into a court of justice, 
like a dog, with a bad name, by the influence of which, coupled 
with the want of practical knowledge in the jury, and perhaps the 
prejudices of all parties, he does not always obtain justice. It is 
generally taken for granted that he must have known of the 
unsoundness or vice in dispute, which circumstance, coupled with 
those before mentioned, and the contradictory statements of 
ignorant and incompetent witnesses, operate strongly against him. 
It too often happens, however, that a mass of perjury on one 
side or another, is produced in court, disgusting to all persons of 
decent character, and such as could not well be surpassed under 
the dispensation of the dark ages, which assumed to deprive oaths 
of their validity, and sin of its guilt.” 
[to be continued.] 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
SINGULAR INJURY TO A HORSE. 
By Robert Wood, V.S., of Lowell, Mass. 
In the summer of 1869, while Lent’s Circus Company were 
performing in Lowell, at an evening performance on Monday, 
while Mr. Cook was riding in his four horses act, one of the lead¬ 
ers fell, and the others in consequence tumbled over him. The 
leader was, to all appearances, badly injured, being, for some 
minutes at least, unable to rise; but being assisted by the strong 
arms usually identified with a circus, he was placed upon his feet 
