ALL ABOUT DOGS 



CHAPTER I 

 A Few Words About Dogs in General 



In these days of progress, when the tendency of 

 everyone, and everything, seems to be to go ahead and 

 try to outdo all that has been done by everyone else, 

 in fact, as we so often see it termed, " to beat the rec- 

 ord," I think I am stating only the actual fact, that, in 

 the history of the world, dogs were never so highly 

 thought of as they are now, nor were they ever so 

 catered for, in a variety of ways, nor so generally 

 popular. 



And when we consider the many varieties of the 

 species, differing as much as is possible in the members 

 of one family, and the appearance, habits, dispositions, 

 uses and characteristics, just as various, it is not to be 

 wondered at that they enjoy such an amount of public 

 favour, as it must be a strangely constituted human 

 being to whom no breed of dog is acceptable ! 



