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again. Ask any man you can trust, who is fond
of dogs, this condition is necessary, to take your
old dog in the park, to give him a bone and while
he is eating it to shoot him with a revolver
through the ear. It is an instantaneous and
painless death, life is extinguished like the candle
you blow out. Many of my old dogs have died so
by my own hand. They all lie buried under the
cypresses in Materita and over their graves stands
an antique marble column. There also lies
another dog, for twelve years the faithful friend
of a gracious lady who, although she has to be
the mother of a whole country, my own country,
has enough room left in her heart to bring a bunch
of flowers to his grave every time she comes to
Capri.
Fate has willed that the most lovable of all
animals should be the bearer of the most terrible
of all diseases—hydrophobia. I witnessed at the
Institut Pasteur the early stages of the
long-drawn battle between science and the dreaded foe
and I also witnessed the final victory. It was
dearly won. Hecatombs of dogs had to be
sacrificed and maybe some human lives as well. I
used to visit the doomed animals and give them
what little comfort I could, but it became so
painful to me that for some time I gave up going
to the Institut Pasteur altogether. Still I never
doubted it was right, that what was done had to
be done. I was present at many failures, saw
many people die both before and after treatment
with the new method. Pasteur was violently
attacked not only by all sorts of ignorant and
well-meaning dog-lovers but also by many of his
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