PBEFACE TO THIED EDITION. 



I CANNOT help congratulating my canine friends, (and 

 may I not their masters also ?), on the circulation of 

 two large impressions of this work ; for I trust that 

 many of the suggestions therein offered have been 

 adopted, and that their education has consequently 

 been effected in a much shorter period, and with far 

 less punishment, than that of their forefathers. 



I have endeavoured in the present edition to ren- 

 der more complete the lessons respecting Setters and 

 Pointers. I have added somewhat on the subject of 

 Spaniels, Eetrievers, and Bloodhounds. It has been 

 my aim, also, to give a few useful hints regarding the 

 rearing and preservation of Game ; and I shall be 



