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when the dog was just about to recover — a red 

 herrmg or some other faUacy. I liave known a 

 master of liounds unbkishingly to assert that he 

 has cured the distemper by giving a red herring — 

 a difficult thing to get a dog to eat, and, if thrust 

 doAvn his throat, likely to make him sick: but no 

 matter ; and I have known other men to be similarly 

 deceived by a circumstantial chance. I have not 

 tried '^ the red herring," nor any other absurd sug- 

 gestion, but warmth, medicine, diyness of location, 

 and friction and setons in the back, I have tried. 

 I have now a little spare kennel at Alderney Manor, 

 in Avhich I have kept dogs of all sorts, and it stands 

 by the side of an open field, and under an old 

 cherry-tree. I have never had the kennel lame- 

 ness there. Lord Malmesbury, when in Scotland, 

 at Achnacarry, had a kennel for his deer dogs, 

 unpretending and damp, but that, too, was imder 

 an old cherry-tree; there in that kennel he never 

 had the kennel lameness. Then why do we not 

 fall into the common error, and assert a ^^ cherry- 

 tree " to be the preventive remedy of the disease 

 in question ? Lord Malmesbury removed his kennel, 

 and made a better one to look at, and his deer dogs 

 were at once, more or less, incapacitated. That 



