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to bring the skin : with a little practice, they will 

 soon be perfect. 



Should all these means prove unavailing, the 

 task ought to be abandoned until he is old enough 

 to be broken in ; and he will then be better able to 

 bear correction, and to understand for what cause 

 it is inflicted. 



Recourse must next be had to throwing a piece 

 of wood into the water, and desiring the dog to fetch 

 it out, which he will soon do by a little practice. 



GREYHOUNDS. 



The varieties and qualities of these dogs will be 

 pointed out in our specific account of them. 



Greyhound puppies should be kept extremely 

 warm, being very tender dogs. They never grow 

 straight if exposed to much cold ; and where 

 gentlemen have not appropriate establishments for 

 this purpose, we would recommend that they be 

 allowed to run about the kitchen fireside ; although 

 in this situation they are liable to accidents. 



The time for trying and training greyhounds is 

 at the age of twelve months, although fifteen months 

 is soon enough. Some sportsmen enter and try 

 them at ten months ; but this is by no means to be 

 recommended, as they are apt to get strained, if the 

 course should happen to be long and severe, and, 

 in many cases, they never get the better of an 

 exertion of this kind at so early an age. They 

 require but little training, as they are endowed with 

 an instinctive propensity to course ; and in some 

 greyhounds their ardour is so great, that it is almost 

 impossible to restrain them. They ought always 

 to be entered at first with a trained dog of known 



