Bearing these facts in mind, the American sportsman will have no difficulty in applying all the rules given in the admirable work in question; and the American dog-breaker can by no other means produce so perfect an animal for his pains, with so little distress to himself or his pupil.
The greatest drawback to the pleasures of dog-keeping and sporting, are the occasional sufferings of the animals, when diseased, which the owner cannot relieve, and the occasional severity with which he believes himself at times compelled to punish his friend and servant.
It may be said that, for the careful student of this volume, as it is now given entire, in its three separate parts, who has time, temper, patience, and firmness, to follow out its precepts to the letter, this drawback is abolished.
The writers are—all the three—good friends to that best of the friends of man, the faithful dog; and I feel some claim to a share in their well-doing, and to the gratitude of the good animal, and of those who love him, in bringing them thus together, in an easy compass, and a form attainable to all who love the sports of the field, and yet love mercy more.
Frank Forester.
The Cedars, Newark, N.J.,
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Setter and Woodcock, | [Frontispiece] |
| Beagles, | To face page [50] |
| Group of Dogs, | [73] |
| The Pointer, | [241] |
| Cockers—Butler and Frisk, | [463] |
| Setters—Bob and Dinks, | [579] |
| The Wolf, | Page [74] |
| The Jackal, | [75] |
| The Mastiff, | [104] |
| Cuts Illustrating the Administration of Medicine to Dogs, | [111], [112], [113] |
| A Dog under the Influence of an Emetic, | [118] |
| Head of a Dog, | [121] |
| Brush for Cleaning the Teeth of a Dog, | [188] |
| A Scotch Terrier, | [197] |
| A Dog Suffering from Inflammation of the Lung, | [211] |
| A Dog with Asthma, | [219] |
| " " Chronic Hepatitis, | [221] |
| " " Gastritis, | [233] |
| " " Colic, | [252] |
| " " Superpurgation, | [263] |
| " " Acute Rheumatism, | [274] |
| A Rabid Dog, | [300] |
| A Mad Dog on the March, | [304] |
| Head of a full-sized Pug Bitch, | [348] |
| The Blood Hound, | [349] |
| The Beagle, | [350] |
| The Gravid Uterus, | [372] |
| Parturition Instrument, | [381] |
| The Crochet, | [384] |
| The Bull-Dog, | [404] |
| Dog with a Canker-cap on, | [423] |
| A Dog Taped or Muzzled for Operation, | [428] |
| Bandages for Fractured Legs, | [445] |