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Title: The Dog

Author: Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson

Editor: William Henry Herbert

Release Date: May 8, 2010 [EBook #32300]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note:

The original text was published in 1873. The contents of this text may be
dated. If in doubt, consult a Canine care professional.]

[Illustration: SETTER AND WOODCOCK.]

THE DOG.

BY

DINKS, MAYHEW, AND HUTCHINSON.

COMPILED, ABRIDGED, EDITED, AND ILLUSTRATED

BY

FRANK FORESTER,

AUTHOR OF "FIELD SPORTS," "FISH AND FISHING," "HORSES AND HORSEMANSHIP
OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRITISH PROVINCES," "THE COMPLETE
MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN," ETC., ETC.

Complete and Revised Edition.

NEW YORK:
GEO. E. WOODWARD,
191 BROADWAY.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
BY GEORGE E. WOODWARD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

In offering to the American public a new edition of DINKS and MAYHEW on
the Dog, which, I am happy to find, is largely called for, I have been
induced to make a further addition, which will, I think, render this the
most perfect and comprehensive work in existence for the dog fancier and
dog lover.

For myself I claim no merit, since, with the exception of one or two
trivial changes in unimportant recipes in DINKS, and some abridgment of
the last admirable work of Col. HUTCHINSON on Dog Breaking, which is now
included in this volume, I have found occasion to make no alterations
whatever, and, save a few notes, no additions.

I will add, in brief, that while I believe the little manual of Dinks to
be the best short and brief compendium on the Dog, particularly as regards
his breeding, conditioning, kennel and field management, and general
specialities, there can be no