“This is a book to be read and re-read by all who take an interest in the noble animal.”--_Sporting Magazine._ “By all means buy the book; it will repay the outlay.”--_Land and Water._ By the same Author. OUR DOMESTICATED DOGS; THEIR TREATMENT IN REFERENCE TO FOOD, DISEASES, HABITS, PUNISHMENT, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, &c. 2s. 6d. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, Edinburgh and London. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg x: ‘Lokern--A Village’ replaced by ‘Lokeren--A Village’. Pg xi: ‘Allée-Vert’ replaced by ‘Allée-Verte’. Pg 55: ‘des Logemens’ replaced by ‘des Logements’ (twice). Pg 87: ‘These good poople’ replaced by ‘These good people’. Pg 123: ‘had in no wise’ replaced by ‘had nowise’. Pg 140: ‘in abunance amongst’ replaced by ‘in abundance amongst’. Pg 147: ‘Jan Evanpoel, the’ replaced by ‘Jan Evenpoel, the’. Pg 155: ‘Schandelbeke and’ replaced by ‘Schendelbeke and’. Pg 155: ‘Lerbeke, &c.’ replaced by ‘Lebbeke, &c.’. Pg 160: subtotal ‘214’ replaced by ‘215’. Pg 165: ‘of the _trèfe_’ replaced by ‘of the _trèfle_’. Pg 186: ‘there waters and’ replaced by ‘their waters and’. Pg 207: ‘allée-vert’ replaced by ‘allée-verte’. Pg 208: ‘happy, consequenty’ replaced by ‘happy, consequently’. Pg 213: ‘picturesqe costume’ replaced by ‘picturesque costume’. Pg 217: ‘beautful battery’ replaced by ‘beautiful battery’. Pg 255: paragraph ends unexpectedly with ‘... to peep of the’. This has been left unchanged. Pg 255: ‘fire of musquetry’ replaced by ‘fire of musketry’ (all seventeen other occurrences are ‘musketry’ ). Pg 256: ‘began to dose’ replaced by ‘began to doze’. Pg 283: ‘as we we could see’ replaced by ‘as we could see’. Pg 306: ‘came in collison’ replaced by ‘came in collision’. Pg 312: ‘and to enconomise’ replaced by ‘and to economise’.