PREFACE. ix 
These records have been carefully collected; and I believe it will 
be found, that though some individuals may hold different views, 
yet that in each case that which I have presented is the one 
which is maintained by a large majority of those who have made 
the subject their: particular study. It is impossible to attain a 
certainty of this in every instance; but should I be wrong, it 
can, at all events, be maintained that neither time, trouble, nor 
expense has been spared in arriving at it. 
Book II.-déscribes the ‘best’ inethods of breeding, ‘rearing, 
breaking, and: managing the dog, while in health, by means ‘of 
appropriate  fodd; exercise, ‘and~“lodging: This division, of ‘the 
subject, therefore, embraces “the ‘enteririg and: running of the 
greyhound ; “the® “breaking” cand ‘working ‘ of ‘shooting dogs; the 
entering and hinting of hounds ; ; and the management of vermin 
terriers, toy, and: house: -dogs.: on a pen a5 
cae “poe 
‘Lastly, in the: Tarp Book ‘the’ most modern ‘and’ ‘successful 
treatment of the diseases to which ‘the dog is subject is given at 
length, and in terms which will, it is hoped, be intelligible to 
all... My readers will, thetefore, perceive that I have omitted no — 
information at all likely to be interesting’ to the lover'of the dog 
which-a long experience and most extensive opportunities have 
enabled me to obtain. 
PE og ae STONEHENGE. 
; July Ist, I 859. 
