" DASH II." (5039). 



"BLUE PRINCE," " KATE." 



Owner, R. LI. P. Llewellin, England. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE SCIENCE OF BREEDING. 



N no one respect is the change in popular 

 feeling upon what relates to field sports 

 more marked than in the opinion now 

 entertained of those who breed dogs. A 

 few years since field sports themselves 

 were hardly tolerated, but a man who 

 bred dogs was regarded as a low character, 

 not to be recognized by gentlemen except 

 as the supplier of their wants. The high 

 rank which sportsmanship has since taken has, as a natural sequence, 

 raised breeding proportionally. Gentlemen wish to deal with gen- 

 tlemen. Canine breeding has been recognized as a science, and an 

 American gentleman takes as much pleasure in breeding a crack 

 field-trial winner as an English lord takes in breeding a winner of 

 the Derby. Even sportsmen who do not breed extensively like to 

 breed occasional litters, and it is therefore fitting that something 

 should be said of the science, since only by knowledge and obser- 

 vance of its laws can success be reasonably expected. 

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