304 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



A MAD DOG ON THE MAKCH. 



does not run. That would be too great an exertion for 

 an animal whose body is the abode of a deadly sickness. 

 He proceeds in a slouching manner, in a kind of trot ; 

 a movement neither run nor walk, and his aspect is 

 dejected. His eyes do not glare and stare, but they are 

 dull and retracted. His appearance is very characteris- 

 tic, and if once seen, can never afterwards be mistaken. 

 In this state he will travel the most dusty roads, his 

 tongue hanging dry from his open mouth, from which, 

 however, there drops no foam. His course is not straight. 

 How could it be, since it is doubtful whether at this 

 period he sees at all 1 His desire is to journey unnoticed. 

 If no one notices him, he gladly passes by them. He is 

 very ill. He cannot stay to bite. If, nevertheless, any- 

 thing oppose his progress, he will, as if by impulse, 

 snap — as a man in a similar state might strike, and tell 

 the person " to get out of the way." He may take his 

 road across a field in which there are a flock of sheep. 

 Could these creatures only make room for him, and stand 



