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of aloes poured down his throat, the bitterness of which he 

 greatly resents. 



The sense of smell rapidly becomes blunted — at any rate, in 

 ourselves ; any oppressive odour is always more marked when 

 first detected. The writer has never satisfied himself that 

 animals are conscious of an offensive odour. Garbage is evi- 

 dently not offensive to a dog ; horses certainly take no notice 

 of the smell from putrefying bodies, though they refuse to pass 

 them if visible, but that is only because they do not expect to 

 see either men or horses in any other than an upright attitude. 



