THE DOG; AND HOW TO 

 BREAK HIM. 



It is not irrelevant to a work like the one now 

 offered to the notice of the public to take a retro- 

 spective glance at the subject on which it pro- 

 fesses to treat ; but any very lengthened observa- 

 tions on the origin or natural history of the dog, 

 whilst they could only be repetitions of a thrice- 

 told tale, familiar even in the nursery, would be 

 superfluous in a small book, the end and aim of 

 which is, to give practical instructions (the result 

 of long practice) on the best methods of breeding 

 and training dogs for the gun, and making them 

 perfect in the field. 



It is a certain and well-ascertained fact, that all 

 dogs found wild, and in a state independent of 

 man, have similar characteristics ; and these cha- 

 racteristics are, more or less, those of the shep- 

 herd^s dog. It is stated by Buffon that the shep- 

 herd^s dog by mere change of climate will become 

 either " a matin, a mastiff, or a hound.^^ Buffon 



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