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When such a dog has roved about for an indeterminate period, 

 as ten or even tw^enty hours, he w^ill return home quietly, if not 

 discovered and destroyed in his progress.* 



" The affection of the larynx produces an invariable altera- 

 tion in the voice, and a very marked one it usually is. A few 

 are altogether mute, from engorgement of the parts. The 

 sounds emitted of themselves form a strong characteristic of 

 the complaint. In the irritable variety, the alteration is first 

 observed by a more quick and hasty method of barking, with 

 some difference also in the usual tones of the bark ; by degrees, 

 an occasional howl either follows the bark, or takes place of it 

 altogether, t This howl which is common to both varieties of 

 the complaint, in the dumb kind has a choaking hoarseness with 

 it ; the whole, however, is of so peculiar a kind, that it may be 

 said never to be heard under any other circumstance than from 

 a rabid dog.t 



" * In cities and large towns, this return after a march of mischief is suffici- 

 ently common ; but in the country it is different, and, therefore, this peculiarity 

 has not an opportunity to shew itself ; for there the unfortunate animal is soon 

 detected by his manner, and is immediately hunted. If not overtaken, he is 

 too much alarmed to return soon ; and, before he has time to recover his fright, 

 he is discovered in some other situation, and falls a sacrifice to the anger of his 

 pursuers. The very hunting will, of course, do to him what it would to any 

 other dog — it will beget fury: otherwise there would very seldom be much 

 ferocity apparent, and, in most instances, such a dog would return home when 

 thoroughly tired." 



" t It is evident that it is not easy to form a written description of any pecu- 

 liarity of voice, but the rabid howl may not unaptly be resembled to the tones 

 produced by what is called, among sportsmen, the ' giving tongue' of the old, 

 heavy southern harrier. It appears composed of something between a bark and 

 a howl, being made up of tones longer than the one and shorter than the other, 

 and always with the head thrown up ; and is usually single and repeated at un- 

 certain intervals only, and is altogether so peculiar, that, when once heard, it 

 can never be forgotten ; and so characteristic, that it may be, I may say, impli- 

 citly relied on. I have in several instances been attracted to houses where dogs 

 have been confined, by the sound alone, m time to warn the inhabitants of their 

 danger." 



" J Boerhaave seems to have this howl in view, whon he says, ' muti quoad 

 latratum, murmurantes taraen.' " 



