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When you have for several weeks fed your puppies on 

 boiled grits, or boiled oatmeal, and a little cooked meat 

 twice a week, and they have learned to eat well and take 

 care of themselves, send the brace, or braces, you may wish 

 to keep to someone you know in the country, to raise for 

 you. It may cost you a few dollars each month, but you 

 will be well repaid in the hardy growth of your puppies. 

 Wherever you send them, have it distinctly understood 

 that you wish them to run loose, as your desire is to 

 develop every bone and muscle in them. 



When they are about ten months old, bring them home; 

 and after the youngsters have learned to know you, and 

 show by their actions that they have accustomed them- 

 selves to the change and to the whistle, teach them to drop 

 and follow well to heel, which you will find a great comfort 

 to you when you walk them. Then take them in your 

 buggy when you drive, that they may get accustomed to 

 the motion of the wagon. Never feed old or young dogs 

 just before you go out to exercise. When over their first 

 sea-sickness, as it were, make them drop the moment you 

 put them in the buggy, and keep them down until you are 

 ready to let them out for a run. 



Nothing is more annoying to me, when I bundle into a 

 wagon, on a shooting-trip with a friend, than to have him 

 say his dog has never ridden, and in a few moments to have 

 him vomit all over the floor. Or if he has not ridden before, 

 and is not broken to drop in the wagon, but to be all 

 over it head on the reins and in your lap, I prefer to 

 get out and walk. Hence this advice as to training dogs 

 to ride. 



As soon as your puppies have been well broken to ride and 

 drop in the wagon, take one of your old stand-by' s out with 

 you and your brace of puppies. Let them out on the road 

 for a run of a mile on the first trip, being careful to select 

 roads but little traveled until your puppies have learned to 

 keep away from passing wagons. You must drive slowly, 

 being careful that you do not run over them. They soon 

 learn to follow well, and in a short time you can give them 



