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fellows, and been absent for a day or two — as is 

 often the case — from the kennels, that he should be 

 isolated for a time, and only restored to the society 

 of his confreres after he had been under a certain 

 amount of supervision. 



In the case of the outbreak of hydrophobia in 

 the kennels of the Devon and Somerset during last 

 summer, I believe there is not the slightest doubt 

 that the disease was brought into them by a hound 

 that straggled from the pack, being, as it was 

 proved, I believe, beyond doubt, locked up for a 

 night with a sheep-dog suffering from the malady, 

 which bit him, and thus introduced hydrophobia 

 into the well-cared-for establishment of Mr. Bissett. 



The second point to which 1 would draw atten- 

 tion is to the state of health of puppies coming in 

 from the different '' walks." I would suggest that 

 young hounds, whose habits and wandering life 

 render them Kablo under these circumstances to 

 contract so fatal a disease, should, before being 

 allowed to mingle with the pack, pass through a 

 time of quarantine. 



Previous to the setting in of the severe frost 

 that has put so effectual a stop upon all hunting, 

 Goodall had given daily exercise to his hounds, 

 by leading them a canter over the race-course. 

 This, owing to the hardness of the ground, has 

 been discontinued for the time, but will doubtless 

 be resumed as soon as the frost ends. 



Giving as my reason for putting trust in Goodall's 

 practical experience in preference to theories of mere 

 students of this direful and destructive disease, which 

 at present no practitioner has been able to prescribe 



