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vent them getting away — which plan possesses the 

 advantage of allowing the puppies fresh ground 

 daily. 



The age of sending puppies to walk depends a 

 great deal on their future quarters. Some may 

 safely be sent out at seven or eight weeks old, while 

 to other places, where the puppies will have to 

 rough it, it is best for them to be nearly three 

 months old. 



A really good walk, where puppies will be well 

 looked after and given plenty of exercise, is 

 worth half a dozen bad ones where they are 

 neglected. 



To take a couple of puppies and do them as they 

 should be done is no light task, and I always try 

 to impress this on prospective puppy-walkers. 

 I often think what a lot of good fellows there 

 are in the country who, year after year, do 

 their very best for the puppies that are sent them, 

 so that they will be a credit to the master and the 

 pack. 



The rearing of puppies is often left to the tenant 

 farmers, and but few men who enjoy the sport of 

 fox-hunting on their 200-guinea hunter ever offer 

 to take a puppy. 



This is not quite as it should be, and if the 

 ordinary hunting man takes a real interest in the 

 pack he hunts with, he should come forward and 

 offer to help the master in this way. Then, if he 



