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and ignorantly raised to condemn tlie l)eautiful 

 creature, the noble, graceful, useful foxhound, for 

 the possession of a deadly disease from Avhich he 

 really never suffered. 



If, while descanting on this cruel subject, any- 

 thing could make a man laugh, it would Ijc the 

 orders issued in some cases by local mayors, alder- 

 men, and others, that the police should seize and 

 capture, taking them to a place of confinement, 

 all mad dogs supposed to be suffering from hydro- 

 phobia. 



If such an order were really issued by the chiefs 

 or superintendents of police to their men, and the 

 men Avere inconsiderate enough to have any faith 

 in the false allegation of ^^lydrophobia," and an 

 idea of obeying the order, why a strike of the 

 entire police force would be the certahi consequence 

 to their being bidden to be bitten by dogs, every 

 one of whose teeth would be sure to convey an 

 inevitable death ! 



If we look through the notices in the press on 



this subject, it is remarkably evident, in the first 



place, that the term ^'rabies" is supposed to mean 



hydrophobia ; in the second place, that there 



is no sucli tiling as a dog simply insane from the 



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