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" shall alter our determination. We have seen 

 numerous cases of hydrophobia ; this is not of that 

 character : and to satisfy you how firm my opinion 

 isj that terrier shall never again be out of my sight, 

 or out of my bedroom at night, until he is tho- 

 roughly recovered from this attack of distemper." 



We need scarcely add, that all thought us better 

 fitted for a lunatic asylum than to be at large, 

 petting a mad dog. But knowing well what we 

 were about, we persevered in our course of treat- 

 ment, notwithstanding an occasional fit ; and at the 

 end of a fortnight the dog was recovered so far 

 that all his bloodthirsty enemies applauded our 

 firmness in not allowing him to be destroyed, and 

 the bitten man rejoiced in his escape from a fearful 

 death, or at least the constant apprehension of it. 



