The first of these doubts may be solved satisfactorily by the bright and dilated appearance of the eye; the quality of the fore-quarter can always be guaranteed by the blue or healthy ruddiness of the jugular, or vein of the neck; while the rigidity of the knuckle, and the firm, compact feel of the kidney, will answer in an equally positive manner for the integrity of the hind-quarter.

He was now sixty-two years of age, hale, and well proportioned,with a manly countenance, tanned by the weather, yet having a ruddiness in his cheeks, over a great part of which his rough beard extended.

He always was a pale young manno bucolic beef-and-beer ruddiness about himalways of a healthy swart pallor; but now he is deadly white!so, by-the-by, I fancy am I!