PREFACE. 
Tur basis of this handbook is “Dog Paths to Suc- 
cess,” a work on dog training, which appeared a few 
years since, from the pen of Mr. W. C. Percy, well 
known to American sportsmen as “I<it [illbird.” 
The merits of the book found immediate recognition, 
and a rapid sale of the entire edition followed. 
Appreciating the great demand for it, which remained 
unsupplied, the copyright was purchased by me from 
the author. After a thorough revision of the text, 
and with some important additions, the work, under a 
new and more euphonious title, is now submitted to 
the amateur dog trainer, for whom it is designed. 
No inconsiderable portion of the first edition was 
deemed extraneous, and therefore omitted. All its 
practical points of importance have, however, been 
given special prominence in these pages, and the sys- 
tem of training herein advocated is distinctly the 
saine as that presented by Mr. Percy in his original 
work. 
“ ASHMONT.” 
Boston, November, 1886. 
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