The modern farrier, or, The art of preserving the health and curing the diseases of horses, dogs, oxen, cows, sheep, & swine : comprehending a great variety of original and approved recipes, instructions in hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, and fishing, and a summary of the game laws; with an enlivening selection of the most interesting sporting anecdotes : the whole forming an invaluable and useful companion to all persons concerned in the breeding and managing of domestic animals / by A. Lawson ... ; illustrated with numerous engravings.

  • Lawson, A., active 1820-1827.
Date:
1823
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Credit: The modern farrier, or, The art of preserving the health and curing the diseases of horses, dogs, oxen, cows, sheep, & swine : comprehending a great variety of original and approved recipes, instructions in hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, and fishing, and a summary of the game laws; with an enlivening selection of the most interesting sporting anecdotes : the whole forming an invaluable and useful companion to all persons concerned in the breeding and managing of domestic animals / by A. Lawson ... ; illustrated with numerous engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    hanging her, because she could no longer * take the lead and keep it.' She arrived there on a Sunday^ and remained apparently satisfied with her new quarters, until Tuesday afternoon, when she ab- sconded, and, on the following Friday, made her appearance at home, so completely exhausted that she had not strength left to lap a little milk. The distance is not very great (about forty-two miles) but what rendered it very extraordinary, was her coming through such a place as London, and of course over one of the three bridges, usually so crow- ded, excepting for three or four hours in the middle of the night, particularly as she had never been even used to a country town, but first saw light, and passed the whole of her life, at a lone insulated house. She was a white bitch, excepting her ears, which were yellow, and remarkably fond of being noticed, so that it is wonderful she escaped being taken up in London, had she come through in the day-time; it is, therefore, probable that she passed through in the night. Tn the month of December, 1800, a match was to have been run over Doncaster course for one hundred guineas, but one of the horses having been drawn, a mare started alone, that by running the ground she might insure the wager; when having run about one mile of the four, she was accompanied by a greyhound bitch, who joined her from the side of the course, and emulatively entering into the competition, continued to race with the mare the other three miles, keeping nearly head and head, affording an excellent treat to the field, by the ener- getic exertions of each. At passing the distance-post five to four was betted in favour of the greyhound; when parallel with the stand, it was even betting, and any person might have taken his choice for five or ten ; the mare, however, had the advantage by a head at the termination.