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dog, which is one of his principal functions in life. 

 Airedales and hounds are more phlegmatic and 

 will consent to be tied to the kennel in tender 

 puppyhood without much fuss. Even the setter 

 gets used to it after the first few nights, but you 

 are in for a siege with him for the first night, 

 anyway ! 



Next comes the problem of feeding the puppy. 

 Nothing sets him back so much as improper feed 

 ing, eczema for Airedales, worms for all pups, and 

 proneness to disease being the sure consequences 

 of improper feeding. A two-months' pup re 

 quires a good many light meals a day ; five is none 

 too much; at three months, four; at six months, 

 three, which is kept up until eighteen months, 

 when he begins to hoist his leg and is mature. 

 Then two meals, a light snack for breakfast and a 

 heavy meal at night, is more than plenty, lest he 

 grow fat and piggy. The two-months' pup will 

 require milk and cracker the first thing in the 

 morning ; oatmeal and dog biscuit well broken up 

 and milk and meat broth poured over it for 

 breakfast ; a lunch at 12 of broken-up, stale bread 

 which has been baked to a golden brown in the 

 oven, over which is poured a good gumbo of meat 

 broth and table scraps ; a bone to gnaw and a dog 

 biscuit at 4 p. M., and a good meal at night, consist- 



