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times, and giving sweets, pastry, and rich dainties, is most 

 harmful, and must produce disastrous results to the unfortun- 

 ate animal. Two meals a day at regular intervals are quite 

 sufficient to keep these little pets in the best condition, although 

 puppies should be fed four times daily in small quantities. 

 After leaving the mother they will thrive better if put on dry 

 food, and a small portion of scraped or finely minced lean meat 

 given them every other day, alternately with a chopped hard- 

 boiled egg and stale bread-crumbs. 



