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if a dog is supposed to be mad with hydrophobia, and 

 particularly if he has bitten any living thing, never 

 kill him, if by any possibility you can catch and 

 safely confine him. Many a dog mad from dis- 

 temper is said to be mad from hydrophobia; many 

 a man's mind has been made nervously miserable 

 under the belief of having been bitten by the fatal 

 tooth ; whereas, if the dog that gave the bite had 

 not been killed, the dog's recovery would have set the 

 mind at rest. From madness arising from hydro- 

 phobia there is no recovery; but from distemper 

 madness, in all symptoms hut the one of lapping ivater 

 precisely allied to hydrophobia, there is very frequently 

 recovery, although it is the worst phase of the many 

 in which the distemper makes itself so terrible a 

 scourge. Having pressed this on the serious reflec- 

 tion of my readers, we will return to the investigation 

 of the kennel at the chateau, myself and my friends 

 having adjourned to an old walled garden in which 

 were a number of foxhound whelps, and the four 

 bloodhound whelps I had brought with me by Druid, 

 as well as some foxhound puppies owing their pater- 

 nity to Saxon. The old and ample walled garden, 

 with a huge deserted pigeon-house in the middle, 

 which made them a very good lodging, was, to look 

 at, a paradise for whelps ; but, alas ! they were all 



