72 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



These words were written nearly ten years ago. 

 Since then, I am thankful to say, the dachshund has 

 ceased to be a fashionable breed. May we not hope, 

 now he is only to be found in the hands of those who 

 love the breed, that, as in Germany so in England, he 

 will be bred in future for use as well as appearance. 

 No dog is more easily trained ; the book I have quoted 

 gives full directions. Sir Walter Scott puts in the 

 mouth of honest Dandie Dinmont an excellent 

 precept for training puppies : " I had them a' regularly 

 entered, first wi' rottens then wi' stots or weasels 

 and then wi' the tods and brocks and now they fear 

 naething that ever cam' wi' a hairy skin on't." This is 

 the way to enter dachshunds, only the smaller animals 

 must be placed in holes of gradually increasing depth, 

 till by degrees the youngsters are brought to face, 

 in his own domains, their hereditary foe the badger. 



