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ing of such conduct, when he received for reply, 

 " Oh, he thought the poor thing might be hungry in 

 the night, and it would do her good to have as much 

 strong food as she could eat." Nothing seemed to 

 be said to him as to disobedience of orders ; and, to 

 my astonishment, nothing could be doing better than 

 the hound ; so, having seen the bucket taken away, 

 we obeyed a suggestion to visit Saxon, the great 

 young able bloodhound I had previously sold to 

 M. d'Anchald, for he was at last supposed to be not 

 quite well. To my horror, I found him in the very 

 last stage of the most virulent attack of the yellows. 

 So jaundiced was he, and the system so much 

 suffused and affected, that his gums, the whites of 

 his eyes, the inner side of his lips, the inner sides of 

 his ears, beneath his elbows, the skin of the abdo- 

 men, and his flanks, were of a deep yellow colour. 

 His eyes were sunken and blurred with matter, and 

 he was so wasted away and weak, that he could 

 scarcely stand. 



" It 's all too late ! " I exclaimed, on seeing the 

 state he was in ; " but you run and fetch me what 

 calomel you have." 



" Calomel, we have none." 



" No calomel ! why, what on earth do you give 

 your servants if their livers are out of order ? " 



