178 Hark Away, 



clinking good galop with a rattling pack of bounds 

 without travelling far for their sport. 



During my stay at Epsom, I learned that a dog in 

 a rabid state had bitten no less than five people in 

 the village of Ewell on Monday last. The fact of his 

 having bitten his master, and been forthwith dis- 

 patched, leaves little doubt of his condition. AVith 

 this fact in view, I cannot too strongly urge masters 

 of hounds and huntsmen to follow the unasked-for 

 advice I ventured to give in a recent number of Belts 

 Life in London, in respect to admitting stray hounds 

 or puppies from their walks into the kennels without 

 their first passing through a stage of quarantine. 



As I cantered along the road from Leatherhead to 

 Effingham, I was accompanied for two or three miles 

 by a foxhound puppy, who, after travelhug that 

 distance with me turned on his heel and went home. 

 This illustrates an easy method, in my opinion, of 

 introducing so fatal a malady as hydrophobia into a 

 kennel ; for it might easily happen that this puppy 

 should meet with a stray cur such as did this amount 

 of mischief at Ewell, and have been inoculated with 

 the disease, subsequently introducing it to Avherever 

 his destination eventually might be. The more I 

 hear of this disastrous complaint, the more convinced 

 am I that it is very little understood indeed ; and 

 before admitting the truth of the many statements 

 and so-called facts in respect to the length of time 

 Avhich the seeds of this disorder are alleged to lie 

 dormant, I should require to investigate very closely 

 the evidence in support thereof. There must be a 

 cause for every effect, but at present I have heard 

 nothing that would guide me in forming an opinion. 



