194 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



been half-trapped or half-poisoned, that fox would 

 not receive even a friendly offer from man, but, 

 suspicious of danger, he killed his own food, 

 and revelled in delicacies and sleep in his sylvan 

 kennel, without mate or many mouths to vex 

 him. 



Note. — The usual or the most available remedy 

 at hand to make a dog sick is salt and water ; but 

 the most approved, in my estimation, is sulphate of 

 zinc, in doses of from 10 to 30 grains, according to 

 size and age. 



In regard to the common occurrence previously 

 mentioned, of a doe being quick with a living fawn, 

 while at the same time she still held the remains of 

 a dead fawn of the previous year, I never found 

 that to be the case with the canine race. The 

 Faculty, who are aware of something of the sort as 

 to humanity, the '' dermoid ovarian cyst," of course 

 are better informed than I can be, I speak only as 

 to facts that have come to my immediate notice. 



