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 there is more quickness, irritability^ and a disposition 

 to rove, to barli or liowl, and tear. 



Whenever any noise is made by a dog who is mad, 

 it ought to be particularly attended to, for it forms 

 one of the most certain aiid infallible criterions that 

 present themselves: except the certain peculiarity, and 

 hardly excepting that, it is the most unerring guide 

 that occurs. No dog that is mad ever barks with his 

 natural bark ; his voice becomes changed, and his 

 manner also. The bark a mad dog makes is some- 

 thing between a bark and a howl, consisting of some- 

 thing longer than the one, dnd shorter than the other ; 

 and is so totally unlike any thing beside, that when 

 once heard and noticed it can never be forgotten. It 

 is so familiar to the ear of the writer of these pages, 

 that he has heard it from one street when he has been 

 himself in another, and, following the sound, has ap- 

 prised the owners of tlieir danger. This happened 

 once particularly where the howl attracted his steps 

 into a farrier's shop, when the master of it had been 

 drenching the dog for a supposed stoppage in his 

 bovv-els. His hands, which he had passed into the 

 dot'^s mouth, were covered with scratches, the effect 

 of his business, wliich without my caution would have 

 remained unattended to, though superabundantly 

 inoculated with the poison. The noise made is more 

 like the giving tongue of a heavy slow hound, and is 

 commonly made with the head held up in the air. 

 There is either great distress apparent in the counte- 

 nance, or a quick anxious look: the eyes are always 

 red ; frequently the inflammation is such as to pro- 

 duce matter ; the sight in some instances becomes de- 

 ceptive, and they snap at objects they fancy they 



