Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 46642-h.htm or 46642-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46642/46642-h/46642-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46642/46642-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/sportingdogsthei00bart Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). SPORTING DOGS [Illustration: _Photo by T. Fall, Baker St._] [_Frontispiece._ HEAD OF BLOODHOUND CHAMPION SULTAN.] SPORTING DOGS Their Points: and Management; in Health, and Disease by FRANK TOWNEND BARTON M.R.C.V.S. Veterinary Surgeon to the Gamekeepers' Kennel Association Veterinary Adviser to the "Gamekeepers' Gazette" Author of "Non-Sporting Dogs," "Toy Dogs," "Everyday Ailments and Accidents to the Dog," "Sound and Unsound Horses," "Our Friend the Horse," "Breaking and Training Horses," "How to Choose a Horse," "The Horse Owner's Companion," "The Veterinary Manual," "The Age of the Horse," "Diseases and Accidents of Cattle," etc., etc. Copiously Illustrated From Photographs London R. A. Everett & Co., Ltd. 1905 [All Rights Reserved] Surely the lines-- "Trust, oh! trust me, I will be Still true for ever, true to thee." have never been more practically demonstrated, than in the following extract, from an account of a poaching affray, published in the _Gamekeepers' Gazette_. "The dead gamekeeper's dog was to be seen by the roadside restlessly waiting for its master, while he lay in a cottage fatally riddled with shot." TO BREEDERS EXHIBITORS, AND FANCIERS OF SPORTING DOGS THROUGHOUT THE KING'S DOMINIONS PREFACE _This work_--Sporting Dogs: Their Points and Management in Health and Disease--_has been prepared as a companion volume to those already published, viz._, Non-Sporting Dogs: Their Points, etc., _and_ Toy Dogs, _in response to numerous inquiries from readers of those volumes, asking for a work upon Sporting Dogs, to complete the series_, at a proportionate _price_. The Points _of the various breeds used by Sportsmen have been freely discussed, supplemented by illustrations from photographs of the most celebrated animals known_. _Kennel Management, The Management of Hounds, Diseases, Accidents and Simple Operations forms an important section of the work--features that should render the book of far greater practical utility than one dealing solely with the different varieties of dogs._ _Both Author and Publisher, will be satisfied, if it meets with the hearty reception accorded to the companion publications._