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overrules the cooler judgment, the engendered 

 evil may on evil's head accumulate ten-fold. 

 Our master was decidedly wrong in contem- 

 plating having you destroyed with such slight 

 evidence of questionable inoculation; but he 

 was quite right in ordering you to be drafted 

 from the rest. The one was an un weighed, 

 ill-judged impulse — the other, a wise pre- 

 caution." 



"A distinction, with a material differ- 

 ence," I observed. 



* ' Yes, ' ' replied he, ' * beyond the shadow of 

 a doubt. I once heard," resumed my friend, 

 ** of a M. F. H. having his entire pack 

 destroyed, in consequence of a couple-and-a- 

 half showing symptoms of hydrophobia — or, 

 as we should say, in more intelligible 

 language, a dread of water. Nothing could be 

 more wanton or unjustifiable, and as well 

 might an entire community of human beings 

 be doomed to perish in consequence of one or 

 more of its members becoming insane, as fifty 

 or sixty couple of hounds, from the same 

 cause." 



" Were there any other doubtful cases 

 besides myself ? " I inquired. 



** No," replied Trimbush. "All were 



