48 THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 



at arn of the childurn, he'd soon het his head off !' I hope he 

 will not. Some years back I had an old Silver Polish that would 

 spur some time with my hat I if placed before him." H. H. 



The Game Cock is in his native country really a more for- 

 midable creature than he is here. "The Dutch doctors are 

 of opinion, that certain cases of hydrophobia which have 

 occurred in Java, notwithstanding no instance of canine mad- 

 ness was ever known on the island, may be attributed to cli- 

 mate, and the state of constitution as affected by it. The bite 

 of the large Indian rat, commonly called the Bandicoot, is 

 supposed to occasion hydrophobia and certain death ; an opinion 

 which, I understand, is also entertained on the coast of Malabar. 

 The bite of an enraged man is said to be as certain of pro- 

 ducing hydrophobia as that of a mad dog, two cases of which 

 had happened not long before our arrival. Dr. Le Dulx 

 mentions several instances of hydrophobia succeeding to the 

 bite of enraged animals, as in the case of a boy bit by a Duck 

 which he had disturbed in its amours, and of a feeder of Cocks, 

 who, being pecked in the hand by one of these animals in 

 separating it from its antagonist, died under every symptom 

 of hydrophobia and madness." Barrow's Voyage to Cochin 

 China. 



" Omnes in primis Galli Gallinacei vitas actiones veri patris- 

 familias, et qui in eo omnem suam curam ponit, et studium, 

 ut families suae de omnibus necessariis prospiciat, significare 

 potest. Haec enim ales totS, die quicquid virium habet, id 

 totum ad suorum confert salutem, et nullius ret minus, quam 

 sui ipsius solicita est. Unde sapientissimus Pythagoras tarn 

 providam animalis, et erga suos promptam naturam considerans, 

 dixit, nutriendum quidem Gallum esse ; at non immolandum." 

 Aldrovandi. 



The first sentence does not quite construe, but means to say 

 that the actions of the entire life of the Gallinaceous Cock 

 show that he is a most excellent family man, placing his whole 



