300 LOUIS PASTEUR. 



especially, an enormous creature, howled and foamed 

 in its cage. A bar of iron was held out to him : he 

 threw himself upon it, and there was great difficulty 

 in drawing it away from his bloody fangs. One of the 

 rabbits was then brought near to the cage, and its 

 drooping ear was allowed to pass through the bars. 

 But, notwithstanding this provocation, the dog flung 

 himself down at the bottom of his cage and refused to 

 bite. 



Two youths then threw a cord with a slip loop 

 over the dog, as a lasso is thrown. The animal was 

 caught and drawn to the edge of the cage. There 

 they managed to get hold of him and to secure his 

 jaws ; and the dog, suffocating with fury, his eyes 

 bloodshot, and his body convulsed with a violent 

 spasm, was extended upon a table and held motion- 

 less, while Pasteur, leaning over his foaming head, 

 at the distance of a finger's length, sucked up into 

 a narrow tube some drops of the saliva. In the base- 

 ment of the veterinary surgeon's house, witnessing this 

 formidable tete-a-tete, I thought Pasteur grander than 

 I had ever thought him before. 



