94 LOSS OF A KENNEL BY HYDROPHOBIA. 



fearlessly, and, notwithstanding the outcries of the unhappy 

 man, forced his horse through the water, and never left his 

 side, until she fortunately overtook some tenants of her 

 brother returning from a neighbouring fair. 



' ' I arrived on a visit the third evening after this occurrence, 

 and the recollection of that poor old man's sufferings has ever 

 since haunted my memory. All that medical skill and affec- 

 tionate attention on his master's part could do to assuage his 

 pain, and mitigate the agonies he occasionally underwent, 

 was done. At length, the moment that was devoutly prayed 

 for came. He died on the sixth morning. 



" From this horrible fate nothing but his own determination 

 preserved my relative : and, by the timely use of a painful 

 remedy, excision and cautery of the wound* he escaped this 

 dreadful disease. 



" I have related the calamity of another ; but I, too, have 

 been a sufferer, although, thank God ! not in person. 



" A setter of uncommon beauty was presented to me by a 

 gentleman under peculiar circumstances. He had been the 

 favourite companion of his deceased wife ; and, during her 

 long and hopeless illness, had seldom left her chamber. He 

 begged me to allow him a place in the Lodge, and not subject 

 him to the restraint of the kennel. His wishes \vere obeyed, 

 and Carlo was duly installed into all the rights and privileges of 

 a carpet-dog. 



"I left home on a shooting- visit, and luckily brought a 

 brace of my best setters with me. A week after my departure, 

 an express reached me to say that Carlo ' was very odd, would 

 not eat,* and bit and worried every dog he met with.' I 

 took alram instantly, and returned home without delay. I 

 found the household in desperate alarm, and Carlo was con- 

 fined in a separate out-house, but not until he had worried and 

 torn every dog in my possession ! 



" I went to reconnoitre him through an iron-stanchioned 



* Dr. Clarke, of Nottingham, relates a case in that neighbourhood, of 

 a dog that was not suspected to labour under rabies until ten days after 

 he had bitten an unfortunate man, who, in six weeks after the bite, died 

 of hydrophobia. This dog ate and drank heartily, showed no signs of 

 indisposition, hunted as usual, and occasionally went into a neighbour's 

 house among children, without injuring any of them; but, on the 

 morning of the tenth day (that is, ten days after communicating the 

 disease by the bite, and when he had no hydrophobia) he was seen 

 snapping at every dog in the street, arid was in consequence destroyed. 



