238 MAD DOGS* 



though he certainly quitted the premises 

 with more reluctance than is commonly ob- 

 served. About three weeks after this, the 

 puppy came running into a room where near- 

 ly fifty people were at a notch, or Hindoo - 

 stance dance, raging* mad. The little crea- 

 ture instantly attacked every thing that came 

 in his way, and the whole notch was instant- 

 ly dispersed in all directions. Several chairs 

 were broken before the rabid animal could 

 be killed. 



Whether, in these instances, the dogs re- 

 ceived the poison by some of the saliva of 

 the mad animals, passing into their mouths, 

 or by respiring the effluvia arising from them, 

 I cannot take upon me to say; but I can 

 confidently assert, that they had no wounds. 

 The above I hope will satisfy Gentlemen, 

 that after a dog has been worried, or has come 

 in contact with another that is mad, he 

 should be tied up for a month to see the 

 event. I may here state an important fact 

 which I had ample means of unequivocally 



