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When such a dog has roved about for an indeterminate period, 
as ten or even twenty hours, he will return home quietly, if not 
discovered and destroyed in his progress.* 
“ The affection of the larynx produces an invariable altera 
tion in the voice, and a very marked one it usually is. A few 
are altogether mute, from engorgement of the parts. The 
sounds emitted of themselves form a strong characteristic of 
the complaint. In the irritable variety, the alteration is first 
observed by a more quick and hasty method of barking, with 
some difference also in the usual tones of the bark ; by degrees, 
an occasional howl either follows the bark, or takes place of it 
altogether, f This howl which is common to both varieties of 
the complaint, in the dumb kind has a choaking hoarseness with 
it; the whole, however, is of so peculiar a kind, that it may be 
said never to be heard under any other circumstance than from 
a rabid dog. $ 
“ * In cities and large towns, this return after a march of mischief is suffici¬ 
ently common ; but in the country it is different, and, therefore, this peculiarity 
has not an opportunity to shew itself; for there the unfortunate animal is soon 
detected by his manner, and is immediately hunted. If not overtaken, he is 
too much alarmed to return soon ; and, before he has time to recover his fright, 
he is discovered in some other situation, and falls a sacrifice to the anger of his 
pursuers. The very hunting will, of course, do to him what it would to any 
other dog—it will beget fury: otherwise there would very seldom be much 
ferocity apparent, and, in most instances, such a dog would return home when 
thoroughly tired.” 
“ f It is evident that it is not easy to form a written description of any pecu¬ 
liarity of voice, but the rabid howl may not unaptly be resembled to the tones 
produced by what is called, among sportsmen, the ‘ giving tongue’ of the old, 
heavy southern harrier. It appears composed of something between a bark and 
a howl, being made up of tones longer than the one and shorter than the other, 
and always with the head thrown up ; and is usually single and repeated at un¬ 
certain intervals only, and is altogether so peculiar, that, when once heard, it 
can never be forgotten; and so characteristic, that it may be, I may say, impli¬ 
citly relied on. I have in several instances been attracted to houses where dogs 
have been confined, by the sound alone, in time to warn the inhabitants of thoir 
danger.” 
« X Boerhaave seems to have this howl in view, when he says, * muti quoad 
latratum, murmurantes tamen.’ ” 
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