British Dogs at Work 



upon the general treatment of our canine 

 friends. 



Mr. Vernon Stokes' illustrations are so 

 admirable in every respect, that I feel that 

 whatever I have to say must of necessity 

 be subordinated to them. They will appeal 

 alike to the connoisseur and to the man who 

 does not know a dog in the technical sense. 

 To the old hand, who may say that I am 

 telling him nothing new, I may rejoin that 

 he has already graduated in the best of all 

 schools that of experience and that my 

 remarks are largely addressed to those who 

 are about to tread the path he has followed 

 for years. 



Mr. Vernon Stokes asks me to express 

 his thanks to the following for allowing him 

 to use their dogs as models for his sketches : 



Mrs. Ingle Bepler, Irish Setters ; Mrs. Edgar 



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