they took they had never taken up such a customer before � the astonished in the manner i had suggested and carried him safe and sound down the area steps while this apparently procession was in progress a gentleman stepped forward and addressed me with a very excited excuse me sir i have but just come and am with the circumstances you are a medical man i see i am connected with the press sir what is the matter sir has happened who is it sir is it a lady or a gentleman and are they dead or only insensible he is a gentleman and at present speechless returned i hurriedly as i accompanied the in question into the house oh the relief of mind and body when i saw that pony deposited safely in our back green the gratitude with which i overwhelmed those of public safety the of expense with which i opened bottle after bottle of superior beer for their refreshment i woke to to her all that i had done our pony and had some to prevent her rushing to the window to look at the new i don t even know what a pony m urged she i be lying awake and trying to picture what unusual at this juncture her doubts were set at rest for ever by the most tremendous that ever issued from the mouth of since the days of it was exactly beneath our bedroom window and sounded like a brass band composed of out of repair why it s only a dreadful donkey alfred cried i with just indignation it s forty cried i and stopping my ears never indeed shall i forget that noise which seems even now to be ringing through the chambers of memory we retired to rest however � that is to say we lay down and listened sometimes we would a hope that all was over that the pony would himself require the blessings of sleep and become quiet and sometimes the real horrors of our situation could not be by any such i think the creature must have been a or lament for his absent mother or other relatives for after very short pauses such as might have been given by any donkey to composition he would burst forth with a torrent of wailing of about fourteen lines in as far as we could judge � and ending in an it was from the first and rapidly grew to be at a m i put on my dressing gown and slippers and taking down the rope from one of the window curtains i forth into the our pony back green sleep had of course been banished from every other of paradise as well as from ourselves a score of human heads regarded me from far and near from first flat to with interest and they believed in their foolish and hearts i knew that i was about to hang the pony i was not going to do anything of the kind i approached the animal uttering sounds such as in the mouths of his late attendants i had observed to give him pleasure but i might just as well have read aloud the act for of cruelty to animals he turned away he fled he even lifted up his heels against me disgusted but not by this conduct i the flying beast with vigour despite the fluttering of my garment and the increasing coolness of my legs i caught him i tied up ins jaw � as i with the curtain rope and retired amid murmurs of applause to my apartment leaving him speechless and better far better would it have been had i never attempted this the great of nature are not to be hushed by the rude hands of man scarcely had my head touched the pillow when the half stifled pitiful more beyond expression than before with hideous and increased in volume with every note presently the rope gave way and the full tide of song burst forth again from that pony as the pent up waters from an dam while the cock imagining no doubt that it was dawn and itself of over sleeping and permitting another creature to be the first to salute the sun added its shrill tribute to the din our pony cat that donkey s throat cried i leaping ont of bed and for a the is situated so low down his that nothing less win stop him him cried you re so fond of that this remark intended to wound my professional feelings was as sometimes happens the veiy best advice that could be given to me i snatched up an enormous of that divine essence and again rushed down to the back green to silence the domestic enemy this time i conquered iu fifteen minutes � it must be confessed after tremendous was standing in my dressing gown and upon that prostrate pony like another a victim to science he like a sleeping who has had enough of his bottle this victory achieved in the sight of respectable though sleepless has been quite an advertisement to me my practice is increasing and the child s ankles are being rapidly strengthened a breach knocked through the wall of our back green the immediate cause of this prosperity to retire after his daily labours to a pasture at a considerable distance is more than she has withdrawn the hasty expression once made use of about something being no more like another thing than a is hke a horse and that a pony is a very good pony after all her sole regret now is that he is not a to persons about to furnish above heading will be familiar to many readers as � having met their eye in the shops of and carpet and they that are or who live in furnished lodgings have doubtless been struck by the apparent solemnity of the address it 