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Title: Breeding, training, management, diseases & c. of dogs:
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Butler, Francis, 1810-1874. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Dog. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Brooklyn, D. S. Holmes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rfect and motionless submission,which must absolutely be enforced at allhazards. This must be repeated in short andeasy doses, until lie remains perfectly still. Al-though this lesson will require great hrmnesaand decision, his temperature must be takeninto serious consideration, for, if you do notkeep him in decent humor, you will render himthe more intractable. If therefore he be of thesnappish caste, you should grade your exactionsaccordingly. You may also test his deadnessby making him stand lire, while you strike allround him with a stick, call him by name, &c.,but he must only rise at the word Up.You may then use any expression you thinkproper terminating with the word Up whenof course he will briskly start up, regardlesscertainly of the Avords preceding it. For in-stance : you may say If thieves were in thehouse, I dont believe that dog would get up.He will appear to understand it all, and springup immediately. The word Oy should bopronounced with emphasis enough to attract
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WATER SPANIEL. Of him, the trifold merits we demand, Of Pointer, Beagle and of Newfoundland ; Active, intellifrent, determined, spry, In huntin,!^ qualities, with Hound may vie. With Pointer, trace the Woodcock, Snipe op Hare,Or with Newfoundland, suiginjr waters dare.In form compact, in temper faultless too.In pluck and vigilance excelled by few ;Best of retrievers, in all climatesgood.For river, swamp, or brake, or thorny wood,Of liver color, ofttiraes mixed with white,The king of Spaniels, if but tutored right;Largest of all, in limb more firmly set,Fondest of all the Genus Canis yet;Robust in frame, with soft and curling hair,Except the head, which should be somewhat bare ;An eye full beaming with expression kind.Bespeaks his friendship and his trut!i combined-An car, with graceful ringlets drooping low.His limbs well clad and feathered to the toe.Although Dogographers oft disagree,Metliinks his race original must be ;Old England boasts the honor of his birth,His fame acknowledged

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