iV EDITOR'S PREEACE. 



dies, precisely according to his directions, cannot fail 

 of success. 



I have this year treated, myself, two very unusually 

 severe cases of distemper, one of acute dysentery, 

 one of chronic diarrhoea, and one of most aggravated 

 mange, implicitly after his instructions, and that with 

 perfect, and, in three instances, most unexpected, 

 success. The cases of distemper were got rid of with 

 less suffering to the animals, and with less in fact, 

 no prostration or emaciation than I have ever be- 

 fore witnessed. 



I shall never attempt any practice other than that 

 of Mayhew, for distemper ; and, as he says, I am 

 satisfied it is true, that no dog, taken in time, arid 

 treated by his rules, need die of this disease. 



Colonel Hutchinson's volume, which is to dog- 

 breaking, what Mayhew's is to dog-medicining 

 science, experience, patience, temper, gentleness, 

 and judgment, against brute force and unreasoning 

 ignorance I have so far abridged as to omit, while 

 retaining all the rules and precepts, such anecdotes 

 of the habits, tricks, faults, and perfections of indivi- 

 dual animals, and the discursive matter relative to 

 Indian field sports, and general education of animals, 

 as, however interesting in themselves, have no parti- 

 cular utility to the dog-breaker or sportsman in 

 America. Beyond this I liave done no more than 

 to change the word September to the more general 

 term of Autumn, in the heading of the chapters, and 

 to add a few short notes, explanatory of the differ- 

 ences and comparative relations of English and Ame- 

 rican game. 



