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Sheep Dogs:—Rough Collies, Smooth Collies, Old English 169 X. Bull Dogs, Bull Terriers, Boston Terriers 179 XI. Terriers,—Irish, Airedale, Bedlington, Black and Tan, Old English 199

PART III

PERFORMING AND TOY BREEDS XII. Poodles, Pomeranians, Pugs, Schipperkes 219 XIII. Toy Spaniels,—King Charles, Prince Charles, Ruby, Blenheim, Japanese 245 XIV. Terriers,—Toy, Smooth Black and Tan, Yorkshire, Maltese, Griffons Bruxelles 263 XV. Toy Bull Dogs, Toy Bull Terriers, Italian Greyhounds 275

PART IV

XVI. Something About Foreign Dogs 291 XVII. Humours and Vagaries of the Show Rings 311 XVIII. to XXIII. Anecdotes About Dogs, Personal and Selected 322 XXIV. A Few Words About General Management and Some Simple Maladies, to Which Dogs are Subject and Their Treatment 389

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Part I

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CONTENTS

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PREFACE

I am told, it is indispensable there should be a Preface to this little work; but I am quite at a loss what to put in it. What I had to say on the subject upon which it treats, I have said in the book, and I am not aware of any thing I wish to add or withdraw. I can only hope the perusal of the book may afford as much pleasure to my readers as the writing it has given me, in recalling pleasant memories of many friends, both two and four-footed, some of whom have long since "joined the majority." As recording the impressions of one who has had considerable practical experience with many varieties of the canine race, and been brought into constant contact with the best specimens, I think my book is somewhat out of the usual run of doggy books. While in no wise seeking to produce a scientific treatise, nor yet a natural history, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, my wish has been so to write on the subject as to stir up in the minds of any of my readers, unacquainted with