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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. Neither my subject nor my limits will 
permit. 
In like manner, diseases, remedies, except the very com- 
monest and most simple, do not come within my subject or 
sphere; in such cases, 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 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, 
