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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
SPORTING DOGS 
S without the ai i of *vell bred 
and well broke logf> no game 
can be either successfully or sci- 
entificallly pursued, and as in the 
management of this noble ani¬ 
mal both in the kennel and the 
field consists, perhaps, the great¬ 
er part of the true science of 
woodcraft, no work on field 
sports can be esteemed in any¬ 
wise complete, which does not treat of their breeds, character¬ 
istics and general treatment; whether in health, in sickness, in 
the house, or in the field. This portion of my subject, I there¬ 
fore, now approach, without farther observation than this, that 
neither a complete history of canine pathology, nor a full 
treatise on dog-breaking must be looked for within the limits of 
such a book as this, and that a few general directions and hints 
only can be afforded on a topic which has itself occupied many 
volumes, devoted to it entirely by writers of competent talent 
and experience. 
Two ©f these, more especially, should be found in every 
sportsman’s library, I mean Youatt on the Dog, and Blaine’s 
Canine Pathology. Of the first of these works a handsome 
edition has been recently published by Messrs. Lea & Blan- 
