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nally, and do not be tempted to do anything whatever 

 to her ; the only interference which is ever excusable 

 is the application of a very little sweet oil or vaseline 

 externally, which she will lick off, and which does no 

 harm and no good, in my experience. 



If help is called for at all, it must be the skilled aid 

 of a surgeon ; any other is worse than useless. 



The puppies are born singly, and if a bitch has a 



FRENCH TOY BULLDOG. 

 " La Reine des Roses," owned by Mrs. Townsend Green. 



large litter they generally come in twos and threes, 

 with a very short interval between the items of each 

 brace or trio, and a long rest between the batches. 

 The first services the mother has to render her babies 

 are to free them from the bag of membranes in which 

 they are born, and to bite the cord which joins each 

 puppy to the afterbirth a fleshy substance which comes 

 away with or shortly after it. All animals intensely 

 dislike being watched while they perform these opera- 



