VARIOUS RETRIEVERS.
CROSS BETWEEN WATER SPANIEL AND NEWFOUNDLAND DOG—BETWEEN WATERSPANIEL AND SETTER DOG—BETWEEN SETTER AND NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.
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DOG BREAKING.
THE MOST EXPEDITIOUS, CERTAIN, AND EASY METHOD,
WHETHER GREAT EXCELLENCE OR ONLY MEDIOCRITY BE REQUIRED,
WITH ODDS AND ENDS FOR THOSE WHO LOVE
THE DOG AND GUN.
BY MAJOR-GENERAL W. N. HUTCHINSON,
LATE COLONEL GRENADIER GUARDS.
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1865.
LONDON
R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.
PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.
A FOURTH preface, Mr. Murray!!!
There are not sufficient materials, although there issome fresh matter, and undeniably, many excellentsketches, thanks to the clever artist F. W. Keyl, andthe talented amateur John M——n, who, contraryto the advice of many friends, has determined thatthe sword shall be his profession rather than thepencil.
Well!—another party shall speak for me, and muchsurprised will he be to find the duty his words areperforming; but they advocate so good a cause thatI feel sure of his forgiveness. He writes in the thirdperson, for we are perfect strangers to each other.
“Captain T——r has all his life been a most enthusiasticsportsman, but never broke a dog, until a year[vi]ago, when he happened to come across the Major-General’swork on ‘Dog-breaking.’ Since then he hastrained two entirely on the system laid down in thebook. People say they have never before seen dogsso well broken—certainly the owner never has.”
“Always an ardent disciple of St. Hubert, CaptainT——r is now still more so from the increased gratificationhe derives from the performance of animalstrained entirely by himself.”
Reader, why not give yourself a similar gratification?
W. N. H.
Government House, Devonport,
December, 1864.
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.
I cannot help congratulating my canine friends, (andmay I not their masters also?), on the circulation oftwo large impressions of this work; for I trust thatmany of the suggestions therein offered have beenadopted,