10^ FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



state of tlio pack; Mr. John Henderson, M.P., 

 occupied the chair, and tliere was a nume- 

 rous attendance of the subscribers. Two vete- 

 rinary surgeons, Mr. Farrow, of Durham, and Mr. 

 Clement Stephenson, of Newcastle, were also pre- 

 sent, in readiness to give a professional o^^inion, if 

 required, on the state of the pack. From the state- 

 ment of the Chairman, it appears that a short time 

 ago a species of dumb-madness, which assimilates 

 both to diphtheria and hydrophobia, and also the 

 latter disease itself, broke out in the kennels, and 

 after some twelve couples of the hounds had been 

 sacrificed, Messrs. Harvers and Henderson, the 

 masters of the pack, came to the conclusion that to 

 keep the hounds was to incur serious danger to 

 human life. The hounds were therefore ordered 

 to be destroyed." 



The moment the foregoing terrible announce- 

 ment was seen by me in the TinieSj I addressed 

 my brother sportsmen on the subject through the 

 same medium, because, in the description of the 

 malady assailing this unhappy kennel, a portion 

 of the supposed to be fatal disease was called by 

 a name I had never known before as correctly 

 attached to hounds or dogs of any sort, viz., ^' dumb- 



