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henever the electrical condition of the atmosphere undergoes a change, in consequence of the coming on of a storm, they disengage a large quantity of carbonic acid, while a current of electricity passes off from the surface. At such times baths are borne with difficulty, the patients complaining of praecordial distress, which amounts sometimes to a feeling of suffocation; the like unpleasant sensations being also communicated, though to a less extent, to those who are drinking the waters.[11] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Polydrusus sericea.] [Footnote 2: Carabus auratus.] [Footnote 3: Scholia flavicomis.] [Footnote 4: Victor Hugo's beautiful line on _maternal affection_.] [Footnote 5: Rondolitier was a celebrated ichthyologist and sportsman of the old school; and those desirous of further information respecting the capture of fish by "fiddling to them," may be referred to his work on fishes, _ad locum_.] [Footnote 6: These hats are very peculiar; they are highly ornamented with ribands, and have acquired, from their peculiarity in having a double front--"chapeaux a deux bonjours."] [Footnote 7: For a lively description of this dance _vide_ Madame de Sevigne's _Letters to her Daughter_. That ecstatic lady, who always wrote more or less under the influence of St Vitus, was in her time an _habituee_ at Vichy.] [Footnote 8: These wolves were six weeks old, in fine condition, and clung to the teats of their foster parent with wolf-like pertinacity. As long as she lay licking their little black bodies and dark chestnut heads, or permitted them to hide their sulky faces and ugly bare tails under her body, they lay quiet enough, but when she raised her emaciated form to stretch her legs, or to take an airing, at first they hung to her dugs by their teeth; but gradually falling off, barked as she proceeded, and would snap at your fingers if you went to lay hold of them. Out of the six, one was gentle and affectionate, would lick your hand, slept with the owner, and played with his ears in the morning, without biting; if his own ears were pulled, he took it as a dog would have done, and seemed to deprecate all unkindness by extreme gentleness of manner, for which he was finely bullied by his brother wolves accordingly. The bitch seemed equally attached to all the litter; for _instinctive_, unlike _rational_ affection, has no favourites. At first the wolves boarded in the same house with us, which afforded abundant
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