100 HORSES AXD HOU^-DS. 



nervous and timid that a dog may exhibit all the appearance 

 without being in the least affected by rabies canum. 



CHAPTER XVL 



Instances of decided hydropliobia in the author's own kennel — Treatment of 

 a bite under such circumstances. 



I WILL now relate some cases of decided hydrophobia which 

 occurred among my own hounds some few years since. There 

 was a large yard dog confined in the stable yard by a long chain 

 to a box ; but I had given directions that he should always be 

 let loose two or three times a week, at least, whilst I was absent 

 from home. I have reason to think this was not attended to, 

 and perhaps water not given to him regularly every day, as I 

 had ordered. The day I returned the dog had broken loose, 

 and bitten some of the old hounds about the place. ]\Iy whipper- 

 in, being a sensible man, had caught him and shut him up in a 

 place by himself, and immediately brought me the pleasing 

 intelligence that he believed the dog mad, and he could not tell 

 what mischief had been done. Singular enough this dog, after 

 biting other dogs, rushed up to one of my children, who was 

 walking out, and tried to lick his hand. He was a great favour- 

 ite with the child, who, seeing him covered with foam and dirt, 

 pushed him off, saying, "Get away, Xep, you are so dirty." 

 The dog left him immediately, and jumped into a pond near. 

 A few hours after he was taken up by the whipper-in, and con- 

 fined in an outhouse. To prevent accidents, some of the tiles 

 were taken off the roof, and food and water let down in buckets. 

 Nothing, however, would he touch after the first day, and on 

 the third he died raving mad, having torn everything to pieces 

 within his reach. For safety, all the loose dogs about the place 

 were shut up or destroyed, but I had still an idea that he 

 might have bitten some of the young hounds through the rail- 

 ings, as they were generally out in the green-yard. So it proved. 

 We watched them carefully, and two of them soon showed 

 sjTiiptoms of rabies. They were removed directly, placed in a 

 loose box, and died in three days afterwards. Others soon fol- 

 lowed, and I then sent off for a very clever surgeon in the 

 neighbourhood, who was fond of the chase, and whom I had 

 before consulted on the distemper. As soon as he arrived I told 

 him the circumstances, and that he would jjrobably have many 



