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by assisting him to preserve the health of 

 his pet. Since the time when my dogs 

 taught me my lesson, whenever they 

 have been ailing I go very slowly toward 

 the medicine chest, and when I do open it I 

 am very chary about using its contents. 



Careful nursing, with simple, harmless 

 remedies, for the ordinary ailments that 

 dogs are subject to, is all that is required to 

 bring them safely through in a very large 

 majority of cases. I have always believed 

 in and practiced careful nursing for my 

 dogs when they were ailing. Knowledge 

 of the simple remedies used, for the greater 

 part at least, has been gleaned from others 

 throuorhout the length and breadth of the 

 land, together with lots of knowledge of 

 what not to do ; indeed, the latter I believe 

 to have been of greater benefit to my dogs 

 than the former. How often have I been 

 assured that a certain medicine or course 

 of treatment was an infallible specific in 

 certain cases, when I knew, or soon learned, 



