Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A most singular circumstance took place lately at Knightsbridge Barracks:-One of the first troops of Life Guards observer, in cleaning his horse, that the animal seemed particularly fond of having his face and head continually rubbed, in doing which the soldier discovered something moveable as he pressed the cheek of the horse. He accordingly communicated the same to Mr. Bloxham, the Veterinary Surgeon to the troop, who took considerable pains to examine it, and having made every necessary preparation, lanced it, in the hope of discovering the cause, when, to his surprise, he extracted a grapeshot, weighing 9 ounces, from the horses head, which he received at the battle of Waterloo, where the wound was immediately dressed in the usual manner, after the engagement, and was considered only as a sword cut.