376 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



dogs with them, often send them to me to keep. 

 I take puppies and teach them good manners 

 — four-footed puppies only, the two-footed 

 species cannot be taught — and train all kinds 

 of dogs except pointers and setters, I do not 

 undertake these because, having given up 

 keepering, I have no land to hunt them on. 



I have dogs from Brighton, St. Leonards- 

 on-Sea, and all parts of the country, some to 

 train, and some to cure of disease. Four 

 years ago I cured a dog of eczema, and the 

 lady to whom it belonged said it had been 

 under the treatment of seven different persons, 

 who had one and all failed to cure it ; that 

 dog has remained in good health from the 

 time I turned it out cured until now. 



I have had considerable experience of 

 rabies and hydrophobia, and I know of a 

 medicine which is a sure preventitive of this 

 terrible disease ; I put it into the dogs food, 

 or water, twice a week. Some time ago I 

 had a colley dog sent me to treat ; he looked 

 uncommonly like going mad, his whole 

 system was in a nervous irritable state, he 



