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in the small pack not one single instance of rabies 

 occurred. During the same year, but rather later in 

 the season, Mr. H. Combe's hounds, which had for- 

 merly been so celebrated when the property of that 

 excellent sportsman, Mr. Osbaldeston, were taken 

 into Lincolnshire to " hunt the April month" in Sir R. 

 Sutton's woodlands. They travelled by water from 

 London, and while waiting at one of the wharfs before 

 embarking, a cur dog was observed by W. Gardner, 

 the boiler, who was one of the persons attendant upon 

 the hounds, to wrangle with them and bite several of 

 them : no particular notice was taken at the time, it 

 being looked upon as an accident frequently occurring 

 to hounds when travelling ; however, within about 

 three weeks of the time, several couples of them died 

 mad ; the rest were only saved by separating them. 

 I will relate one more instance of hounds going mad 

 in the kennel from being bitten, before I close these 

 few observations ; I received the account from that 

 well-known old sportsman, Major Blagrave, who was 

 master of a pack of harriers for many years. In the 

 year 1806, the major resided at Ashdown Park in 

 Berkshire, and was at that time in possession of a very 

 clever pack of harriers. Upon the puppies coming 

 up from their quarters in the spring, he was informed 

 that one of them had been bitten by a dog supposed 

 to be mad, which had been roving about the neigh- 

 bourhood, and he was advised to keep an eye upon 

 him ; however, after the dog had been shut up 

 some weeks, and no symptoms of madness being 

 evinced, he was placed in the kennel with the other 

 hounds, where all went on well for some days ; in the 



