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willing to increase, I accepted from a neighbour a doe of a year old brought up tame, which suddenly one day, being remarkably familiar before, run twice against me with no much small force & the last time threw me down on one knee with violence & so much to itself as to fall back exhausted, on coming out I sent my husbandman to it, to whom it behaved the same & by foaming &c showed every sign of madness & being shut up died raving mad about 3 days after & bit one of my servants to make him bleed, tho' on taking a medicine in these parts never known to fail, he received no hurt, as I had some suspicion of this being bit by a dog before I had it, was not so much surprised, but was highly alarmed the next full moon by a full-headed buck 6 years old bred in the paddock going on a sudden raving mad & as I found after, it had been perceived the doe had particularly run against it, yet I imagined it was nearly impossible from the nature & form of their teeth that I could they could bite one another, it is to be sure not impossible that as the