THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



as it grows out, and should be like polished 

 steel a bright metallic blue-gray, except on 

 the legs and head and mustache, which should 

 be a bright tan. 



There has been so much fuss lately about 

 hydrophobia, that if a poor half -grown dog 

 cutting a nasty double tooth, and like any 

 human baby, gets cross and slobbery, it is 

 apt to get shot, or at least held under suspicion. 

 My grandfather, father, and husband, all hav- 

 ing been dog-lovers, I have been brought in 

 contact with people owning and breeding dogs 

 of one sort or another all my life, yet I never 

 heard of any one who makes a business of 

 keeping dogs having any personal experience 

 with hydrophobia, and I firmly believe that 

 most of the cases cited are due either to excess- 

 ive nervous imagination or a bad condition of 

 the person's blood when bitten. 



A young brindle collie once came to us, who 

 was foaming at the mouth, wild-eyed, and snap- 

 ped at every one who came near him, and would 

 do nothing but hide in a dark corner. I put on 



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