VI EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



where they abound sufficiently to make it worth the 

 sportsman's while to pursue them alone. Where 

 they do so, there is no difference in the mode of pur- 

 suing the two birds, however dissimilar they may be 

 in their other habits and peculiarities. 



Bearing these facts in mind, the American sports- 

 man will have no difficulty in applying all the rules 

 given in the admirable work in question ; and the 

 Ail^Brican dog-breaker can by no other means pro- 

 duce so perfect an animal for his pains, with so little 

 distress to himself or his pupil. 



The greatest drawback to the pleasures of dog- 

 keeping and sporting, are the occasional sufferings of 

 the animals, when diseased, which the owner cannot 

 relieve, and the occasional severity with which he 

 believes himself at times compelled to punish his 

 friend and servant. 



It may be said that, for the careful student of this 

 volume, as it is now given entire, in its three sepa- 

 rate parts, who has time, temper, patience, and firm- 

 ness, to follow out its precepts to the letter, this draw- 

 back is abolished. 



The writers are all the three good friends to 

 that best of the friends of inan, the faithful dog ; and 

 I feel some claim to a share in their well-doing, and 

 to the gratitude of the good animal, and of those who 

 love him, in bringing them thus together, in an easy 

 compass, and a form attainable to all who love the 

 sports of the field, and yet love mercy more. 



FRANK FORESTER. 



TH CEDARS, NEWARK, N. J., 



