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it, by recommending it strongly to every sportsman to have al 
ways at hand, as better than the best farriers, Blaine’s Canine 
Pathology, and Youatt on the Dog: these, if he have ordinary 
intelligence, and ordinary care, aided by a small medicine-chest, 
and a lancet—without which latter article no sportsman should 
ever take the field—will enable him to guard against the occur¬ 
rence of most disorders in his kennel, and to conquer such as do 
occur, unless extraordinarily obstinate or malignant. 
FIELD MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. 
It is not, of course, presumed that the sportsman is necessari¬ 
ly to become a dog-breaker, much less that a tyro at field sports 
can be made a dog-breaker by reading a few pages more or 
less of written or printed instructions. 
On the contrary, it is notorious that scarce any science is more 
difficult of attainment, or requires more combinations of personal 
qualifications than that of subduing and breaking animals. Ex¬ 
treme patience, great steadiness of temper, sagacity, intelligence, 
quickness of comprehension, firmness and even severity, must be 
united to long experience, to personal strength, physical cour¬ 
age, the power of enduring fatigue, unwearied industry, indo¬ 
mitable energy, and constant perseverance. Even of professional 
dog-breakers, not one in fifty is really up to his business ; how 
then shall the amateur hope to jump at the conclusion in a minute. 
Again, it is presumed that every person who is not a most 
perfect and accomplished sportsman, will buy a well-broke dog; 
or if he breeds, which is troublesome, and very likely to lead to 
disappointment, will have his Pointer or Setter trained by a 
professional workman. 
It is true that a dog will certainly work better for the person 
who has first trained, and continually practised him, without 
ever changing his master; but so few men have the ability, and 
so few of those who have, are willing to give the time or labor 
necessary to indoctrinate a dog thoroughly, that it is hardly ever 
