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his fallen foe. Dogs will eat putrid carrion when 

 nothing better is to be obtained, but this wretched 

 beast had lived upon it from choice for the natural 

 period of its existence, and its ancestors, doubtless, 

 had done the same before, thus its system was so 

 impregnated with the noxious exhalations resulting 

 therefrom as to be too much even for a dog to stand. 



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