150 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



would remain sulky and sullen in a corner, or if 

 in a stable, beneath the manger. Let the dish of 

 water be offered to him, at its approach there would 

 be a convulsive up-twitching of the head and upper - 

 lip. Put the water close to him, and he would 

 become violently agitated. Sprinkle some of the 

 water on him, let him see it splashed, or even hear 

 its aqueous sound, and he would be convulsed and 

 furious. Kemove the water, and he w^ould relapse 

 into a sullen moodiness, and very likely remain 

 quiet till he died. 



Judging by the young hound in my own kennel, 

 the only hydrophobic certainty that ever came 

 under my observation in the course of over half a 

 century, the symptoms of the dreadful malady were 

 not so violent, so restlessly agitated, as those ex- 

 isting in hounds when arising simply from the 

 effects of common distemper. If a '' dog gets a 

 bad name," we all know what hapjDcns ; and if a 

 poor distempered cur in a street should chance to 

 look unwell or wild, a cry is got up directly, by a 

 cruel crowd fond of any excitement, of ^' mad dog," 

 and he is run after by every ragged ruffian, and 

 at once driven frantic, when, if suffering from 

 connnon '^ distemper," he is pursued and harassed 



