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THE POLITE GROCERS. 305
Inquisitive to discover the cause of her uneasiness, I went
to the place. After going into a pond to drink, she
came out, and waited on the brink for a black snake,
which crept from among the bushes, and approaching
her, entwined himself round her legs, and began to suck
her milk. I observed this phenomenon two successive
days without informing the herdsman. The third day 1
acquainted him with it, and he told me that for some
time the cow had kicked at the approach of her calf’
and that she could not without difficulty be compelled
to suffer it to suck. We took away the snake, which we
killed. On the succeeding days, the cow, after in vain
waiting for her suckling, ran about the meadow in such
a manner, that the herdsman was obliged to shut her up.
Dr. Ansel mi has since ascertained, by repeated experi-
ments, that if the teats of the cows be washed with a de-
coction of tobacco, the ravages of these extraordinary
depredators may be effectually prevented.
Particulars concerning the “ Polite Grocers,” of the
Straiid.
1 here are few of our readers who are not in some de-
gree acquainted with the character and singularities of
Mr. Bentley, whose Dirty Warehouse, in Leadenhall
Street, not long since attracted the eye of every passenger.
The annexed engraving represents two characters, whose
eccentric humour, though less conspicuous in its conse-
quences than that of Mr. Bentley* on account of the
different channel into which it has been directed, is how-
ever not less worthy of the attention of the curious.
Messrs. Aaron and John Trim, (of whom accurate like-
nesses are given in the plate) are grocers, residing at No.
Eccentric, No. VII. r r 449,
Inquisitive to discover the cause of her uneasiness, I went
to the place. After going into a pond to drink, she
came out, and waited on the brink for a black snake,
which crept from among the bushes, and approaching
her, entwined himself round her legs, and began to suck
her milk. I observed this phenomenon two successive
days without informing the herdsman. The third day 1
acquainted him with it, and he told me that for some
time the cow had kicked at the approach of her calf’
and that she could not without difficulty be compelled
to suffer it to suck. We took away the snake, which we
killed. On the succeeding days, the cow, after in vain
waiting for her suckling, ran about the meadow in such
a manner, that the herdsman was obliged to shut her up.
Dr. Ansel mi has since ascertained, by repeated experi-
ments, that if the teats of the cows be washed with a de-
coction of tobacco, the ravages of these extraordinary
depredators may be effectually prevented.
Particulars concerning the “ Polite Grocers,” of the
Straiid.
1 here are few of our readers who are not in some de-
gree acquainted with the character and singularities of
Mr. Bentley, whose Dirty Warehouse, in Leadenhall
Street, not long since attracted the eye of every passenger.
The annexed engraving represents two characters, whose
eccentric humour, though less conspicuous in its conse-
quences than that of Mr. Bentley* on account of the
different channel into which it has been directed, is how-
ever not less worthy of the attention of the curious.
Messrs. Aaron and John Trim, (of whom accurate like-
nesses are given in the plate) are grocers, residing at No.
Eccentric, No. VII. r r 449,