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must be carefully watclied, and if it lias not visibly 

 taken, it nmst be repeated until it does do so, 

 every wlielp being separately confined for a few 

 da}'s, as before stated. 



A retriever puppy of mine lived in a kennel 

 with my setters when they were all attacked 

 with distemj^er, which, in the case of a magni- 

 ficent dog, named '' Chalk," resolved itself into 

 violent insanity^ or what would vulgarly be called 

 ^'rabies." When the kennel was entered, on 

 approaching Chalk, my head -keeper, Toovey, 

 had to provide himself with a sack doubled up 

 to receive the bites which poor, dear Chalk, in 

 his insanity, directed at him. The others were 

 sullen under this most severe attack, but not 

 violently mad. The setters all died, but the 

 retriever, who had lived with them, been in 

 constant contact with them, and been bitten by 

 Chalk, survived it all. She had been vaccinated. 

 When site was vaccinated in the ear, a very con- 

 siderable pustule arose, and she was unwell and off 

 her feed for two days. Alas ! I had deemed that 

 the setters were free from danger of distemj)er, and 

 that they had had it very mildly in their younger 

 days, and to them the vaccinating operation was 



