THE DOG. 



Buct a case oaBnot he expectect, still relief may be given. 

 Liquid, but strengthening food, such as beef-tea, should be 

 given. A weak solution of chloride of lime, or the liquid potasass, 

 is as good medicine as any. Tou had better, however, before 

 administering it, let a veterinary surgeon see the dog, that he may 

 instruct you as to the strength and quantity of medicine to be 

 given at a dose. 



It may be as well here to give some instruction as to the 

 proper way to give physic to a dog. To give it to a squalling, 

 kicking, refractory child is bad enough, but, in ordinary cases, 

 to see " Sambo" or " Floss" taking its medicine is a sight 

 that would make the fortune of a farce could it be properly 

 put on the stage. It is usually a job for an adult individual, 

 the animal operated upon weighing from eight to twelve pounds : 

 there must be two to hold its feet, one to open its jaws and 

 keep them open, and the other to force the medicine down the 

 patient's throat. The restilt is that the peor fellow grows 

 dreadfully alarmed and excited, no doubt fully believing that 

 the four ruffians about him are bent on his destruction, and 

 expecting every moment to be dragged limb from limb. In- 

 deed, I have no doubt that a stranger dropping suddenly on the 

 interesting group would have much the same impression. If 

 it is a pill that is to be administered it sticks in the patient's 

 throat, and perhaps a quill-pen is caught up to " push it down." 

 If so the result is certain; how it would be with a human 

 being under such circumstances may be shrewdly guessed, 

 but with a dog the effect is inevitable. Then there is a 

 pretty consternation among the four doctors. If it is a 

 draught, the jaws are held open and the liquid poured in ; 

 but there it remains at the back of the mouth, not a drop 

 going down the throat, and the patient's eyes growing wilder 

 and wilder every moment. " Let him go," says the tender- 

 hearted person at the fore-legs, " he is being suffocated," and 

 that he may have no hand in the murder he lets those mem- 

 bers free, whereon the patient makes the best of his fore-claws 

 on the jaw-holder's hands, and lie lets go ; and all the time 

 and struggle and sixpenny draught have gone for notking. By 

 the bye, it should be added, that, fimny as this may read, it 

 is a dreadful business for " Sambo," who would, doubtless, if 

 he knew the nature of his aillnent — indigestion, dropsy, mange, 

 — cheerfully endure it, or anything else short of hydrophobia, 

 rather than submit once more to the dlreadfnl physicking. 



AU this fuss, however, may be avoided. There are several 



