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be noticed, and into which the light is unable to enter. 

 In solitude and darkness he passes his day. If his retreat 

 be discovered and the master's voice bids him to come 

 forth, the affectionate creature's countenance brightens ; 

 his tail beats the ground, and he leaves his hiding-place, 

 anxious to obey the loved authority ; but before he has 

 gone half the distance, a kind of sensation comes over 

 him, which produces an instantaneous change in his whole 

 appearance. He seems to say to himself, " Why cannot 

 you let me alone 1 Go away. Do go away. You trou- 

 ble, you pain me." And thereon he suddenly turns tail 

 and darts back into his dark corner. If let alone, there 

 he will remain ; perhaps frothing a little at the mouth, 

 and drinking a great deal of water, but not issuing from 

 his hiding-place to seek after food. His appetites are 

 altered, hair, straw, dirt, filth, excrement, rags, tin shav- 

 ings, stones, the most noisome and unnatural substances 

 are then the delicacies for which the poor dog, changed by 

 disease, longs, and swallows, in hope to ease a burning 

 stomach. So anxious is he for liquids, and so depraved 

 are his appetites, that no sooner has he passed a little 

 urine than he turns round to lick it up. He is now alto- 

 gether changed. Still he does not desire to bite mankind ; 

 he rather endeavors to avoid society ; he takes long jour- 

 neys of thirty or forty miles in extent, and lengthened 

 by all kinds of accidents, to vent his restless desire for 

 motion. When on these journeys he does not walk. 

 This would be too formal and measured a pace for an 

 animal whose whole frame quivers with excitement. He 



