PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



Since the Eirst Edition of The Bog was published in 1859, his 

 varieties have been studied, and their points minutely described, 

 by a great number of breeders to an extent which was never 

 contemplated before that time. As a consequence, I have 

 been enabled to define them most minutely in the present 

 edition, and I think no sufficiently-known breed, either British 

 or foreign, is omitted from the list. In the Second Book little 

 or no change has been attempted, for the simple reason that 

 there is no occasion for it, since the various uses to which the 

 Dog is put in this country by the sportsman and the dog-fancier 

 have not been altered during the interval which has elapsed. 



The Third Book treats of his diseases, in which no great 

 improvement has been effected since the publication of the 

 Second Edition, and it is therefore printed as it then stood. 



It is with some considerable satisfaction that I now present 

 to my readers my original work on The Dog brought down to the 

 level of the present day. 



STONEHENGE. 

 June loth, 1879. 



