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it ; and where a boiler is used, the barley-meal 

 should be poured by hand into the boiling water, 

 being well stirred all the time — the fire then re- 

 moved, and the pudding allowed to stand half-an- 

 hour in the copper before it is taken out and 

 placed in the pudding-troughs. I have been 

 rather prosy and particular on these points, from 

 the questions so often asked by masters of setters, 

 pointers, and other dogs, how their food should 

 be cooked, and this explanation will, I hope, 

 suffice. But if they are too fastidious to see 

 these directions attended to by their servants, the 

 consequence will be that their dogs will still 

 continue thin and out of condition as heretofore. 

 " The master's eye makes the horse fat ;" and it 

 is of course the same with his dog. 



Upon the principle that " children and chicken 

 should always be picking," Avhelps require feed- 

 ing at least three times a-day — morning, noon, and 

 night ; but they are not to be crammed with a 

 quantity of food at one meal, which will have the 

 effect of making them pot-bellied — excessive re- 

 pletion being particularly injurious to young ani- 

 mals of every genus and species. Puppies also 

 require a constant change of straw, and when a 

 month or six weeks old should be put out into 

 the air, in a sunny situation, protected from the 



