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malady, you know just what to do, but 

 with a dog it is different. In Dick's case 

 each member of our household had a dif- 

 ferent remedy. The cook thought that a 

 horse-chestnut tied about the patient's 

 neck would be just the thing, while the 

 chambermaid was sure that one of those 

 queer little magnetic rings, if put on the 

 sufferer's right paw, would speedily bring 

 him round. My wife, who acted as senior 

 consulting physician, was for trying chlo- 

 roform liniment, and accordingly this was 

 done. 



The patient bore the application like a 

 young Spartan, but the result was any- 

 thing but satisfactory, and we concluded 

 that only as a remover of superfluous hair 

 had the remedy any effect at least, on 

 dogs. Through our blundering kindness 

 we had doubled our little friend's pain. 



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