text:  But the poor beasts that have come doubtless much to their own surprise across the water to us looked heartily ashamed of themselves on catching a glimpse of their plump sleek brother beasts in England--and the farmers burst out a-laughing at sight of _the lean kine that were to eat up the fat ones_! The practical result has been that between the 9th of July 1842 and the present time there have not come over foreign cattle enough to make one week's show at Smithfield