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 We might fill a volume, were we to collect and enumerate the various acts of damnable infamy practised by this set of men and tolerated in this country of assumed tenderness and sensibility; but an instance or two must suffice.

It is customary with butchers, (horrid name! but justly significant) to tie two calves together by the legs and to throw them across a horse, in which manner they are suspended for two or three hours together, and still longer, if the inhuman wretch has business on his way home, or if invited to lounge at a favourite alehouse.

It is the constant practice of these wretches to bleed calves to death, for the purpose of whitening the flesh; and the process is worthy of professed and hired murderers. An incision is made in the throat, and the animal is then hung up by the heels, while yet alive and convulsed with pain. One end of a short iron hook is at the same time stuck into the body near the tail, and the other end in the mouth, for the purpose of bending the neck, and opening the wound. In this state the miserable animal is left to linger several hours!

It is not uncommon with these professed murderers, in driving a number of sheep, when any one is untractable, to break it's leg.

A butcher driving a flock of sheep, one of them having broke away from the others, the monster drew his knife, and, with shocking barbarity, cut out the poor creature's eyes. In that condition he turned him to the rest of the flock. Such barbarous inhumanity raised the indignation of all who saw it, except the executioner, who being asked the motive which had induced him to such an act of cruelty, replied, with unconcern, that "he was accountable to no