CH. III.] DOG MADE SICK BY THE SMELL. 181 



him is said to have been utterly beyond belief and 

 indescribable: from the following results pro- 

 duced by it I am assured but a faint notion of it 

 can be gained. 



One day while my friend was out partridge- 

 shooting, the goat, who was disposed to be dis- 

 gustingly familiar, came to such close quarters 

 that he gave him a kick, as the quickest means of 

 getting him out of the way. In doing this, his 

 trowsers having happened to come in contact with 

 the brute, they from this slight touch became 

 so contaminated, that, although he did not put 

 them on again until the ensuing spring, he then 

 not only found them to be still unwearable in 

 consequence of the smell, but after divers mea- 

 sures had been taken with a view to their purifi- 

 cation, the attempt was relinquished as altogether 

 hopeless, and he had them destroyed. And this 

 odour was not only intolerable to human kind, 

 but the very dogs were made sick by it, a fact to 

 which a brother of my friend, who fell in with the 

 goat another day, while out shooting, bears wit- 

 ness, in answer to a question from me, as follows : 

 "Touching the goat, I personally saw a dog, a 

 spaniel, give up hunting, 'cling' its tail, and run 

 off towards home, giving every sign of being about 



