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Songs'--" The Children irrt&e Wood^ mver§e Children in the Wood Restored > in proiss The Trial of an Ox for killing a Man Also a variety of others r at f ? Id* 2d ? 3d, 4d 9 6d ? |j| Is 6d ? &c. \for Sale, >- ■A f uajottitjr' |I eat^tttning .8d PuispMi SL ? » •-^^fe -3 ft Now each lad and each lass, Both sister and brother, May have hooks for each class, Vor Father, or Mother. And when, with much pleasure., You've read Yni all o'er, Then hasten to Ivi sheii's, lies printing some more. W here each daughter and son, And each nephew and niece; Each good child may have one* ror a penny a piece. 4) "i Omtm ii - A. A. Hi HP I 2 I JL Of / / y -*^- ^ I i I I Killing* a 1TJL 1 5 W ! Til The Examination of the Witnesses, BEFORE JUDGE LION, At Quadruped .Court, near Beast Park, BANBURY: Printed and Sold by J, G. Rusher^ BRIDGE-STREET, Price One Fenny. OF r V D I <4 I -4. jU 1 A Li trrjri ¥ x m i \ 7 I M - — ^^ rTiyf^t |jj3ftt r "" j An Ox was seized by the Dogs, and brought to trial, for having gored his Driver hi sue!] a brutal id aimer, in Smith field Market, as caused his death* His trial was held at Quadruped Court, Beast Park, near the Pe- destrian 'Hotel. The Lion sat as TRIAL OF THE OX* ^■^JLg^jq^VTg^fi .jfla^fciJF* Judge. The Bo£s offered them- selves as witnesses, which the Jud&c refused, asthey were thief- takers, ancl interested. Here the council too besan to arransrce, ■which the Judge would not ad- mit of; he told them, indeed, if a point of law should arise, they niiffht speak to it, biut he would have no witness brow-beaten or misled in that court. s TRIAL OF THE OX, The Horse and Ass w re then called up; who deposed,, that they saw the Ox go to a Man and gore him, near HmifhikkL a nd that his life was despatredof, To this the Ox pleaded iff- norance, and said, that he had been il!-used and deprived oT his senses, and knew not what happened in consequence thereof; but, pro- vided that were not the case, he certainly would have lost his life nut JL FOR RILLING MAN 9 — . --» ;w jg&± ^v^^'fe bv the murdering Bufclier, who deals death and destruction to our race, to procure subsistence for hi nseif and family, by tine sale of our carcases. 80 now, iav lord, [ stand here, arraigned fi>r the accidental offence of gor- injr an inhuman drover, whose only business it was to dispose of me to the keeper of the biautrh- ter house. 1 -.<] 10 TRIAL OF AN OX, A Bee, that had been perched on the Oxes head, offered his evidence, — and deposed, that he had been an eye witness of the whole affair. cc This poor Ox, my Lord/' says he, " was taken from his friends and relations in the conn- try, where he led a peaceful in- nocent life, and put under the care of a cruel and inhtiman drover, who pricked him all the way to London, with a nail at the end of a pole; and when he was lame, and unable to walk so VOR KILLING THE D ROY ER. ] 1 wmm ■ waahmam fiSsfe » fast as the sa\ a g;e driver designed, he beat him about the legs, with a stick, with a great knob at the end of it, which still niAde hifti more lame. When he came to Snnthfield, he stood, with his head tied on the rails, from 4 o'clock oil Mondav mofi ine* till 8 on Mondav night, which was sixteen hours, when the anguish he was in affected his head so much, that he lost his sense?, and 12 TKIAL OF THE OX, committed the act for which he stand's indicted. Who is to blame, m v Lord? It is true, the Man lost Ins life, but the innocent Ox is liot to sulier for it : because from i.M treatment the Ox had lost bis se.wes, and therefore could not he accountable for his actions. Those are too blame, my Lord, who encourage drivers in such acts or' inhumanity ; and sutler a market tor wild and mad beasts, to be held in the middle of a large and opulent city : do you ^**4 FOR KILLING A MAN. I o ■ think the queen of my hive would softer us to bring home what we make boot upon ? No, in order to prevent mischief and confusion, we prepare our meat before we are let into -the city, and so would these people, bad they halt the sense they pretend to have!" Then the Judge interrogated several other witnesses., who cor- roborated the fact of the former, and the Bear, as counsel, cross* ■ ■ 14 TRIAL OF THE OX, examined them, m a mild and rienply manner, so as not to confuse their evidence. Tiifn the Tiger arose, and having commanded silence, spoke as follows: r 1^ ' \ Gf'C. M FOR KILLING A MAN. complain of cruelty in iiiiiiriaLs, when their own minds are pro- I ductfVe of such scenes of inhu- manity : Are not the Ox and other creatures murdered for their emo- lument? Are not we hinted to death for their amusement, as well as the Stag and the Hare? Are not the Bees burnt, and their houses plundered for their use ? ■ f 16 TRIAL OF THE O What have you Mr. Horse, for earning the boobies on your back, but stripes and ill treat- ment ? And what have you, Mr. Ass, who are their nurse and doc- tor, but lashes and ill laBfiruace? Man, the two legged Tiger man, is the most ungrateful of beasts." 1 hen the Judge recapitulated the evidence, which appeared too clear to admit of a doubt, that the poor Ox was pricked and TOR KILLING A ".TAN. 17 beaten in a most inhuman man- ner,, by'ihe drover, and that being: driven todesnaratioii b\ the cruel treatment., he turned suddenly round, and gored the heard- hearted Drover. Upon which, the Jury returned a Verdict of Manslaughter, and the J udcre Fined him a Blade of Grass, ordered him to be Imprisoned an Hoar, and ttien Discharged him, amid general acclamation. «. - ■ . ,-.-■. .. . ■ j 18 TRIAL OF THE OX. Li poii vvhiciv, the Cock clapped I) is wings, and crowed applause to the \ erdict ; and the spectators di parted, perfectly satisiied with the sentence. 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'Spelling Books, ft% Ri&nv kinds of ■Chiklnjn's jBatt!edore$».v School Books, .Children's BooIs 5 &c* ot any kiads^ iostru€ii« aaci ^iMwip V ***■£*■ ■%»* *ym,** &s»s«sa«s*3!^*»a«^^ g led th« Ox to Ms trial,;;.;. For killing the, man .at the fair; From duly he took no denial, ■ v i Amhdi&tUm m. misckief hew •, - mS s+