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When we come to the several varieties, I shall speak some- 

 what more largely ; but as this work is intended chiefly 

 for young sportsmen and beginners, I shall not enter into 

 dog breaking, of which they are not supposed to be capa- 

 ble, even if in positions and circumstances where they 

 might attempt it. Keither my subject nor my limits will 

 permit. 



In like manner, diseases, remedies, except the very coni- 

 monet.t and most simpla, do not come within my subject or 

 sphere; in such eases, the best thing to take is advice. 

 Young beginners, who seek to cure by dosing and drugging, 

 are pretty sure to kill. Those who wish to learn what is 

 necessary of such things for accomplished sportsmen, will 

 find what they want in " Dinks and Mayhew on the dog; " 

 the former excellent authority on breaking, the latter on 

 medicine ; in my own " Field Sports ; " and in " Blaine's 

 Canine Pathology," and " Youatt on the Dog." 



Dogs should be warmly but airily housed ; heartily, 

 but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oat- 

 meal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small 

 quantity of salt, which is a 1 preventive against worms — 

 occasionally some vegetables may be added, and once or 

 twice a week, sheep's-head broth, the water in which meat 

 is boiled for the house, or greasy slops of any kind ; milk 

 and buttermilk, whenever they can be spared, are excel- 

 lent additions — they should have abundance of water, 

 abundance of exercise, be kept scrupulously clean and 

 dry, and their condition and efficiency will well repay the 

 care. 



The dogs most used by sportsmen in this country are, 



