CHAPTEK V. 



The following letter mentions a curious recipe for 

 curing the bite of a mad dog : — 



To Miss White. 



Selborne, Jan. 7, 1*784 



Dear Mrs. Mary, — We were much obliged to you for your 

 Liliputian rhimes, which entertained me and Mr. Churton 

 much. If any parcel should be coming down, pray send 

 me half a pound of break-fast green-tea at 10s. and half pound 

 of best tea at 14s. By the time that I received your favour, 

 you, I trust, received a letter from me desiring your father 

 to send me about 36 pds. weight of good salt fish, with the 

 price. I thank God I am better ; but have not yet been at 

 Faringdon; and shall, I fear, find it difficult to recover 

 some hardiness, especially as the severe weather is returned, 

 after a rapid thaw. We rejoice to hear that Bro. B. and 

 H. H. W. are so much better. A mad dog from Newton 

 great farm alarmed us much Sunday was fortnight by biting 

 half the dogs in the street, and many about the neighbour- 

 hood. 17 persons from Newton farm went in a waggon to 

 be dipped in the sea, and also an horse. Eobert Berriman 

 has lost by illness two horses very lately : and now his cow ; 

 which by some strange neglect got into the barn's floor in 

 the night, and gorged herself so at an heap of thrashed 



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