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indispensable to us, I shall be satisfied. And should I 

 have elicited any sympathy for the poor patient creatures 

 which in future years will bear the fruit of kinder and 

 better treatment, and help in any way to ameliorate 

 their lot, I shall feel that I have at least done some little 

 good. 



In conclusion, I recognise and regret the fact that conciu- 

 there are many shortcomings in this work : deficiencies 

 in technicalities, anatomical, botanical, and otherwise, 

 especially on the subject of breeding and in the in- 

 formation concerning species and breeds. But I trust, 

 on some future occasion, after further experiences and 

 fresh research, to add really valuable and useful in- 

 formation on such an important but much neglected 

 subject as this. 



If, however, this work will have no other effect but 

 to raise sufficient interest in a hitherto despised and 

 neglected animal, which will result in the inculcation 

 of a humaner treatment and better management in- 

 cluding a wider spread use of it I shall consider it a 

 decided gain, and feel that its production has in a 

 certain sense at all events been fully justified. 



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