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steers. The dog dashed in among the cattle, and began to haz 
them about and was observed to bite several of them, especiall 
a heifer which it threw down. The farmer who saw the dog ei 
ter the pasture, and observed its singular actions, at once ser 
word to his neighbors, some of whom owned the cattle, so that 
was not long before quite a number of persons collected. A 
would be natural in such cases, the steers also charged upon tli 
dog, but they were only successful in driving him into an adjoii 
ing pasture in which were also cattle, many of which he was see 
to jump at and to bite some. In this way the sport, if I migl 
call it so, continued until about 6 p. m., though several attempt 
were unsuccessfully made to shoot the dog, which was a shephen 
until finally it took its way out of the pasture and was eventual! 
found by a farmer in so very exhausted a condition, lying in a 
excavation in the earth, that he jumped on it and stamped it t 
death. 
It is of great value to this case that these pastures bordere 
on the “ Blue ” Biver, and that all along its banks were numeroi 
other pastures in continuous succession in each direction from tl 
two in which the cattle bitten and hazed by the dog in questio 
were situated. Though the grazing, weeds, shrubs and trees as wc 
as water drank by the cattle was of the same nature in all the* 
cases, not a single animal died in any other pasture except the tv 
mentioned during all the time that has elapsed since July J7t 
except one cow, from a well-marked case of parturient apoplex i 
and one calf that was in a field near a house some distance fro 
these fields, but which was on a line which the dog must ha^ 
passed over in the course he was first seen to be coming. Tl 
same dog was observed to bite this calf by its owner, a M 
Inlioff, a very intelligent farmer, and as I did not see it in perse 
I will give Mr. InhofFs remarks to me as a part of the liistor 
The calf was six months old and was sick nine days ; the sym 
toms shown corresponded to those reported by the other observer 
viz., great excitability, eyes appearing wild, constipation durin 
the earlier part of the illness, terminating in diarrhoea, a frequei 
passage of urine in small quantities, desire to eat and drink, b 
could not swallow, the food and water returning by the mouth ad 
