62 COLONEL HANGER Td 



Th6 moment he looks dull and heavy, re- 

 fuses his food, and begins to look pale in the 

 mouth, before he turns, in any considerable 

 degree, yellow, you must give him the me- 

 dicine, or I will not be answerable for his 

 cure. The quantity is twelve grains of 



TURBITH MINERAL, MADE INTO A BALL, WITH 



ANY SYRUP, the same as in the distemper. 

 Give this three or four days following: on 

 the fourth day, he will either be totally out 

 of danger or dead. You must by no means 

 bleed him in this disorder ; if j^ou do, you 

 will kill him. In a very fev/ years, I have 

 had six or seven dogs taken with this dis- 

 order; and, upon my word, I never lost 

 but one, and that by my own negligence ; 

 which I will prove to you. 



An old gamekeeper and huntsman, who 

 was my servant, said to me, just as I was at 

 breakfast : '' One of your dogs, sir, did not 

 feed last night well ; you observed that, and 

 told me to look to the dog, and examine 

 him the very first thing in the morning. I 

 let him, sir, out of the stable, to run about; 

 but I observed him to be rather dull, and 



