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August, the greatest care was necessary as to how, 

 and in what manner, he was fed. Heat had no 

 effect as to diminishing his poAvers of speed and 

 endurance, hut the nature of his food, if neglectfidly 

 or improperly given to him, though fed twenty- 

 two or three hours on the day preceding hunting, 

 would occasionally affect his brain, and render him, 

 for the moment, out of his senses. In the six or 

 seven years' constant work in summer and winter, 

 when with me killing the deer in the New Forest, 

 on two, or at the most three occasions, I have 

 seen him thus stricken. 



After the death of a deer, on the conclusion of a 

 severe chase, I have known him race round and 

 round in a circumference of twenty or thirty yards, 

 flinging his tremendous tongue as if in view of a 

 deer, his bristles up, and an inclination to bite 

 anything with which, in his mad excitement, he 

 came into contact. 



My companions, and also the attendant keepers, 

 have got up trees to keep out of his infuriated way, 

 and called to me '^ in the name of Heaven to take 

 care, for that he was ' mad,' " — the word, of course, 

 as in the lamentable case of the Durham kennels, 



in their estimation, including the fatal disease 



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