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FRANK FORESTER S FIELD SPORTS. 



SPORTING DOGS 



S without the aid of well bred 

 and well broke dogs no game 

 can be either successfully or sci- 

 entificallly pursued, and as in the 

 management of this noble ani- 

 mal both in the kennel and the 

 field consists, perhaps, the great- 

 er part of the true science of 

 woodcraft, no work on field 

 sports can be esteemed in any- 

 wise complete, which does not treat of their breeds, character- 

 istics and general treatment ; whether in health, in sickness, in 

 the house, or in the field. This portion of my subject, I there- 

 fore, n:)\v approach, without farther obseiTation than this, that 

 neither a complete history of canine pathology, nor a full 

 treatise on dog-breaking must be looked for within the limits of 

 such a book as this, and that a few general directions and hints 

 only can be afforded on a topic which has itself occupied many 

 volumes, devoted to it entirely by writers of competent talent 

 and experience. 



Two of these, more especially, should be found in every 

 sportsman's library, I mean Youatt on the Dog, and Blaine's 

 Canine Pathology. Of the first of these works a handsome 

 edition has been recently published by Messrs. Lea & Blan- 



