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a difficult one or hard to find, and with a httle co-operation the time 

 should not be far distant when the law will make impossible the half- 

 starved, half-cared-for, half-wild mongrels that threaten our inhal)it- 

 ants and the other domestic animals with the possibility of hydro- 

 phobia, and prevent the pursuit of a profitable industry by many of 

 our citizens. Kindness itself would put such dogs under the turf. 



