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nor were their injuries severe ; however, thinking it safer 

 to do so, I cauterised all the bites I could find on both 

 as thoroughly as I could, and gave no further thought to 

 the matter. 



Six months later, however, after I had left the district, 

 a friend at Sholapur, to whom I had mentioned the incident, 

 wrote to tell me that both the dhoby and the dog-boy 

 had just died of hydrophobia ! The curious part of this 

 business was that I could never discover when, where, or 

 how the dog had contracted the dread disease himself ; 

 and could only conclude that he, being like most terriers, 

 exceedingly pugnacious, had been bitten, when fighting 

 with some village cur, which had the germs in him. 



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