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press. This unselfish spirit has, nevertheless, been coupled with as 

 keen a rivalry as ever, and it has not been either from carelessness 

 or contempt that any secrets of the kennel hitherto unknown have 

 been permitted to escape. In the chapters relating to the rearing 

 and kennel management of the greyhound, however, there will not 

 be found any great additions to the directions given in the first 

 edition, the chief ones relating to training and the choice of sires 

 and dams upon which the views put forth by me twelve years ago 

 have been somewhat modified and I have consequently entirely 

 rewritten the chapters referring to those departments. 



In the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of the dog, some 

 valuable additions to the directions given in the last edition have 

 been made in the present one ; foremost among which ma,y be 

 mentioned the German discoveries in regard to the natural history 

 of the worms infecting his body, and to their prevention or removal. 

 The recent researches of Kiichenmeister and Von Siebold on this 

 subject have been embodied, as far as is likely to be useful to 

 the non-professional reader, and the most safe and trustworthy 

 remedies suggested. There is still much to be learnt ; but it is by 

 gradual steps that any further progress is likely to be achieved, 

 and these can only be gained by recording what is already known 

 or surmised, as I have endeavoured to do. 



It is a subject of great congratulation to myself and all admirers 

 of Coursing, that, within the last ten years, the heavy betting which 

 formerly attended it has almost entirely disappeared. With the 

 exception of the Waterloo Cup, there is not a stake in the present 

 day on which any considerable amount of gambling takes place, 



