of the
Mudfog Association.
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of small carts and barrows engaged in dispensing provision to the cats and dogs of the
metropolis was one thousand seven hundred and forty-three. The average number of
skewers delivered daily with the provender, by each dogs'-meat cart or barrow, was thirty-six.
Now,
multiplying the
number of
skewers so delivered by the number of barrows, a total of sixty-two thousand seven
hundred and forty-eight skewers daily would be obtained. Allowing that, of these sixty two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight skewers, the odd two thousand seven hundred
and
were accidentally devoured with the meat, by the most voracious of the forty-eight
animals supplied, it followed that sixty thousand skewers per day, or the enormous num-
twenty-one millions nine hundred thousand skewers annually, were wasted in
ber
of
the kennels and dustholes of if
;
and warehoused, would in ten time afford a mass of timber more than
collected
years'
London which,