CH. III.] DOG MADE SICK BY THE SMELL. 181 
him is said to have been utterly beyond belief and 
indescribable: from the following results pro- 
duced by it J am assured but a faint notion of it 
can be gained. 
One day while my friend was out partridge- 
shooting, the goat, who was disposed to be dis- 
° gustingly familiar, came to such close quarters 
that he gave him a kick, as the quickest means of 
getting him out of the way. In doing this, his 
trowsers having happened to come in contact with 
the brute, they from this slight touch became 
so contaminated, that, although he did not put 
them on again until the ensuing spring, he then 
not only found them to be still unwearable in 
consequence of the smell, but after divers mea- 
sures had been taken with a view to their purifi- 
cation, the attempt was relinquished as altogether 
hopeless, and he had them destroyed. And this 
odour was not only intolerable to human kind, 
but the very dogs were made sick by it, a fact to 
which a brother of my friend, who fell in with the 
goat another day, while out shooting, bears wit- 
ness, in answer to a question from me, as follows: 
— “Touching the goat, I personally saw a dog, a 
spaniel, give up hunting, ‘cling’ its tail, and run 
off towards home, giving every sign of being about 
