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be, which is most followed in youth. If a dog is 

 permitted as a youngster to have the run of the kitchen, 

 he will be too fond of it when grown up. If he is allowed 

 to amuse himself in every way his fancy dictates, he will 

 think little of the privilege of hunting. Therefore, the 

 hours he cannot pass with you after you have com- 

 menced his education, I am sorry to say it, but I must 

 do so, he ought to be in his kennel loose in his kennel,* 

 not tied up ; for straining at his collar would throw out 

 his elbows, and so make him grow up bandy-legged. 

 If, however, he must be fastened, let it be by a chain. 

 He would soon learn to gnaw through a cord, especially 

 if a young puppy, who, from nature, is constantly using 

 hiti teeth, and thus acquire a trick that some day might 

 prove very inconvenient were no chain at hand. You 

 would greatly consult his comfort by having the chain 

 attached, with a loose ring and swivel, to a spike fixed a 

 few paces in front of his kennel, so that he could take 

 some exercise by trotting round and round. 



307. When your dog has attained some age, and 

 hunting has become with him a regular passion, I believe 

 you may give him t as much liberty as you please without 

 diminishing his zeal but most carefully prevent his ever 

 hunting alone, technically called " self-hunting." At 

 that advanced time of life, too, a few occasional irregu- 



* Twice a day he should be allowed to run out, that he may not 

 be compelled to adopt habits wholly opposed to his natural 

 propensities. If he has acquired the disagreeable trick of howling 

 when shut up, put a muzzle 011 him. 



