DISEASES TO WHICH IIOUNDS AKE LIABLE. 1G5 



wiser than some veterinary surgeons. The soldier 

 lifted his bayonet from the level of the charge, the 

 child in silence passed imder it direct to the dog. 

 She picked up her four-footed friend, perhaps the 

 only thing that really loved her, and placing it 

 under her disengaged arm, without awordofanjr 

 sort or description, walked directly at the legs of 

 the bystanders, who, burdened as she was, skipped 

 nimbly out of her way ; and, with an apparent 

 sigh of disappointment at the sudden cessation of 

 their cruelly disjoosed excitement, the people dis- 

 persed, and the sentry paced in quietude, as in 

 duty bound. 



The foregoing fact will prove to my readers on 

 what slight grounds the charge of the frightful 

 malady of ^' hydrophobia " in the hound or dog can 

 be founded ; for suppose that a brutal mob of 

 London ruffians had chased the poor little dog from 

 his sentry-box, and driven, him, wild with terror 

 only, through the lake in the park, into some 

 corner where, in desperation, he would have 

 defended himself unto death, learned veterinarians 

 and philosophers of all descriptions would have 

 quoted it as an instance that '^mad dogs had no 

 hatred of water." 



