keep Dogs, muft have a fpecial care that they let them 

 not rteep too much, cfpecially after their Meat, when 

 they are young : for as they are very hot, fo in their 

 fleepdoih their heat draw much pain into their Sto- 

 mack and Ventricle. The time of their Copulatiooi 

 is for the moft part at a year old i yet the Femalesi 

 will lua after it fooner i but they (hould be reftraincdi 

 from it, becaufe it debilitates their Body, and dullsi 

 their Generofity. After the expiration of a year, 

 they may be permitted to copulate i it matters not 

 whether in Winter or Summer, but it is beft in the 

 beginning of the Spring : but with this caution, that 

 Whelps of a Litter, or of one and the fame Bitch, be 

 never fuffered to couple •, for Nature delights in varie- 

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In antient time, for the more ennobling of their race 

 of Dogs, they would not permit them to ingcnder 

 till the Male was four year old, and the Female three i 

 for by that means the Whelps. would prove more 

 itrong^and lively. By Hunting, Labour, and TravcJ, 

 the Males arc made more fit for Generation, and they 

 prove bert which have their Siers of equal age. When 

 they grow proud, give them Leaven mingled with 

 Milk and Salt, and they will not (iray and ramble a- 

 broad. 



It is not good to preferve the firft or fecond Litter^ 

 but the third : and after they have littered, it is good to 

 give the Bitch Whey and Barley-bread i for that will 

 comfort her, and increafc her Milk : or take the Bones 

 of broken Meat, apd feeth them in Goats-Mi'k i which 

 nutriment will Hrengthen very much both Dam and 

 Whelps. 



There is no great regard to be had as to the Food 

 of a Dog, for he will eat any thing but the Fle(h of 

 his own kinde \ for that cannot be fo drefled by the 

 art of Man, but they find it out by their Nofe, and 



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