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cause, an hyena threw it out of his mouth, and very 

 reluctantly went off. The puppy was washed 

 and minutely examined, but no injury could be 

 discovered. The puppy was smeared over with 

 slime, which must have been the saliva of the 

 hyena. No idea was entertained at the time, 

 that the hyena was mad, though he certainly 

 quitted the premises with more reluctance than 

 is commonly observed. About three weeks after 

 this, the puppy came running into a room where 

 nearly fifty people were at a notcli, or Hindoo- 

 stance dance, raging mad. The little creature 

 immediately attacked every thing that came in his 

 way, and the whole notch was instantly dispersed 

 in all directions. Several chairs were broken 

 before the rabid animal could be killed. 



Whether, in these instances, the dogs received 

 the poison by some of the saliva of the mad 

 animals passing into their mouths, or by respir- 

 ing the effluvia arising from them, I cannot take 

 upon me to say; but I can confidently assert, 

 that they had no wounds. The above, I hope, 

 will satisfy gentlemen that, after a dog has been 

 worried, or has come in contact with another that 

 is mad, he should be tied up for a month to see 

 the event. I may here state an important fact, 



