2 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



The numerous packs of stag and foxhounds, harriers, 

 beagles, and other hounds, kept throughout the United 

 Kingdom, not only are the means of providing an im- 

 mense amount of sport for our countrymen, but are, 

 also, directly and indirectly the cause of the great im- 

 provements which have been effected in the breed of 

 our horses, particularly those suited for hunters and 

 cover hacks, and, therefore, the cause, also, of the cir- 

 culation of a vast amount of money in our own country 

 every year, especially amongst farmers, millers, sad- 

 dlers, hay and corn dealers, trainers, keepers, kennel- 

 men, grooms, helpers and a large number of others, 

 more or less connected with hunting and its sur- 

 roundings. 



To take another branch of the same subject, just 

 consider what a large body of men are interested 

 and employed in the breeding, rearing, and training of 

 the vast number of high class greyhounds, which are 

 kept in some parts of the country, not only for the 

 competitions in the important national events, but, even 

 for private owners, who make a hobby of an occasional 

 trial with their dogs. Then again, the great army 

 of keepers, kennelmen, and gillies, kept throughout 

 the kingdom, to look after and, in some cases, to breed, 

 and break, the deerhounds, pointers, setters, retrievers, 

 and spaniels, which add so much to the pleasure of a 

 true sportsman's daily work amongst game of all kinds, 

 from deer-stalking to shooting black-cock, grouse, par- 

 tridges, pheasants, etc. (although many persons now- 

 a-days seem to go on the principle of getting a big total 

 of the days, or weeks' " shoot," and care little for the 



