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be slipped. One day of such work, where the game is 

 plentiful, will educate any well-bred young Deerhound. 



Preparing for the bench requires an entirely diiferent 

 course of treatment after your dog is in good condition. 

 Up to that point the work may be of a similar nature. He 

 should be brushed and combed daily, and well hand- 

 rubbed, so that his muscular development will be promi 

 nent to the touch. Teach him to romp and play with you 

 while you have a collar and leash on him. This will insure 

 gay carriage in the judge's ring; and when you have a Deer 

 hound with his eye bright, head up, and tail properly car- 

 ried, if otherwise equal, he will always win over a sulky, 

 drooping, cheerless dog. 



I have always had better success, in the ring and in the 

 field, with dogs of my own rearing, than with those reared 

 by others. They are always more tractable, more ready to 

 obey my wishes, and much more cheerful than those pur- 

 chased after they are grown. The latter always act for 

 me as though they were looking for a lost friend. My 

 advice is to rear your own dogs, so that they may know no 

 other master than yourself. 



The memory of the Deerhound seems to surpass that of 

 any other breed except the Greyhound. I have sold old 

 dogs and have not seen them for two years, and without 

 seeing me they would at once recognize my whistle when 

 t*hey heard it, and would come bounding to me in a perfect 

 ecstasy of delight. How much longer they would have 

 remembered me I can not say, but doubtless for many 

 years. 



COURSING THE DEERHOUND. 



Thirty-four years ago, in the Blue Mountain Range of 

 Pennsylvania, I began this sport. In the spring of 1856, a 

 Scotchman, a watch-maker by trade, located in the little 

 village of Lehigh Gap. He brought with him two Deer- 

 hounds, a dog and a bitch. After a short residence at the 

 Gap he had to go back to Scotland, and left his horse and 



