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they were driven by dogs from a distant part of the pasture to a part 

 near the road, opposite the house. When they arrived in sight, it 

 was seen that two dogs were an)ong them, attacking and biting them 

 fiercely. A boy went at once into the pasture ;ind drove the dogs 

 away. They disappeared in the direction of the town farm pasture. 

 One he described as being a shepherd dog of about average size, 

 with black body and tan or brown legs. The other, as a medium- 

 sized animal, yellowish brown in color and of no particular breed. 



After the dogs had been driven away, the cows being greatly 

 frightened and excited were taken to the j'ard, and an examination 

 showed some of them to have been badly bitten about the hips, legs 

 and tail. On account of the frightened condition they were kept 

 for several days in the barn and yard. During this time the wounds 

 healed kindly, so that on the eighth of June only a few sciateh-like 

 scars could be found upon the body and legs of the animal subjected 

 to post-mortem examination. 



Later in the day we were informed by Mr. W. H. Perkins, super- 

 intendent of the Town farm, that during the forenoon of May eleventh 

 his cattle, in the pasture adjoining that of Miss Howe, were attacked 

 by two dogs one of which was a shepherd. They were so fiercely 

 attacked and so thoroughly frightened that they broke through the 

 pasture fence and came running at full speed to the stable. It was 

 noticed that some were bitten upon the hind legs, the tail and adja- 

 cent parts of the body. Still later in the same forenoon two dogs 

 corresponding to those described as the ones found among the cattle 

 in pasture 13 were seen worrying tlie stock in Mr. St. Jamin's pas- 

 ture. In this case they were seen to confine their attack to two 3'ear- 

 ling heifers, while little attention was paid to the older animals. Mr. 

 St. Jamin or some of the men about the place, seeing that the cattle 

 wen- being worried, started across the fields towards the pasture, but 

 before they had arrived the dogs had disappeared in the woods. 

 No examination of the heifers was made at that time as at a distance 

 they appeared to be all right. In about two weel<s or more they 

 were missed from the herd. Search was made and they were found 

 dead in a wooded part of the pasture. An examination showed that 

 they were bitten about the buck parts of the body. In fact, INlr. St. 

 Jamin said, " The tail of one was nearly severed at a point several 

 inches from the free extremity." The exact date of the deaths of 

 the heifers cannot be fixed. 



No reliable information was obtained in regard to the appearance 



