324 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



remotest sign of having a worm, and the puppies have almost 

 galloped into healthy, happy maturity, protected from all the 

 usual canine ailments by constitutions impervious to disease. 

 He has seen others almost eaten away by worms. Great 

 writhing knots of them have been ejected ; they have been 

 vomited ; they have wriggled out of the nostrils ; they have 

 perforated the stomach and wrought such damage that most 

 of the puppies succumbed, and those that survived were 

 permanently deficient in stamina and liable to go wrong on the 

 least provocating. The puppy that is free from worms starts 

 life with a great advantage. 



