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hunting, and where the keepers lay poison. 

 If the animal has not taken sufficient to 

 kill him it will produce fever, and nature 

 throwing it out upon the skin, gives a 

 similar appearance to the mange in dogs, 

 and it often happens a poor devil in this 

 miserable situation lingers for months, and 

 at last is starved to death. 



The very idea of poison makes me 

 shudder ; I have suffered from it both in 

 my house and in my kennel, and it seems 

 to me an omission in the Legislature that 

 dogs were not included in the "Black Act,' 

 for I cannot distinguish any material differ- 

 ence between the crime of a person who 

 poisons a horse, and that of one who thus 

 destroys a valuable dog. In my humble 

 opinion, he who has the villainy to do either 

 would not hesitate to give you a dose 

 likewise ; and the sooner such rascals are 

 brought to the scratch at the Old Bailey, 

 tant mieux pour tout le monde. 



