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whom might appear the seeds of distemper or 

 any other ilhiess, so as instantly to care for their 

 •removal. The entry were all jolly and well on 

 the preceding day ; but on the next day I re- 

 marked that when the other yomig homids went 

 lip to their usual speedy playmate to coax him 

 to set off at speed, he turned a deaf ear to the 

 suggestion, not sulkily nor angrily, hut as if 

 their suggestion to be gay was distasteful to him. 

 The hint was enough for me, and going to the 

 boiling house, where some couples were kept, with 

 my own hand I took that poor unhappy young 

 hound to an empty stable, where I chained him 

 u}), and kept him under lock and key. The 

 hydrophobia soon showed symptoms of its fatal 

 presence, and the third day he died. He died 

 in the night of the third day, and on the following 

 morning I found him curled up in his straw, 

 showing no symptoms of having died in bodily 

 agony, and never having howled (another vulgar 

 delusion of tlie people, that mad dogs always 

 howl). From the symptoms which beset tliis dog, 

 and the dread of water I elicited from him, I 

 have drawn my foregone conclusions respecting 

 the disease. 



