Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0092

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0092

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  1. I remember taking 'part in' a mad dog chase. He was shot foaming dreadfully at the mouth. Even today every strange dog is looked upon as a mad dog & children ran from him in dread with the cry "mad dog!" Thus the aftermath of a regime of terror persist for generations. At that time even those suffered from extreme delerium tremens were temporarily confined in the asylum, so great was the fear of hydrophobia & the human bite was most carefully cauterised "I'd sooner get the bite of a mad-dog than have anything to do with that fellow
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    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script