58 SHOOTING : 



And ev'n ; sugar of lead but half an ounce, 

 Dissolv'd in pint of water, I pronounce 

 Is best : should you these few plain rules pursue, 

 Your aim is gain'd his strength you thus renew. 

 When dog or whelp is laid upon the shelf 

 With this disease, confine him by himself, 

 As 'tis infectious ; or make sure that those 

 That have not, must this canine plague oppose. 

 When the discharge, from being but mucous, 

 Runs from the nose and eyes in foetid pus, 

 When sneezing 's frequent, and the loins are weak, 

 Palsies and fits ensue, Death 's sure to reap 

 Their wretched lives ; but in the first onset 

 Let the disease with promptitude be met. 

 Ask twenty keepers, and they'll tell a tale 

 Of twenty cures each never known to fail; 

 The num'rous remedies were I to state, 

 I fear my readers I should satiate. 



When worms they have of jalap twenty grains, 

 Calomel three, and also take the pains 



