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The Editor, having been called upon by the American publishers of the present volume to see it through
the press, and add such matter as he deemed likely to increase its value to the sportsman and the lover of dogs
in this country, the more readily consented to undertake the task, as he had previously, during the intervals of
leisure left by professional avocations, paid much attention to the diseases, breeding, rearing, and peculiarities
of the canine race, with a view to the preparation of a volume on the subject.
His design, however, being in a great measure superseded by the enlarged and valuable treatise of Mr.
Youatt, whose name is a full guarantee as to the value of whatever he may give to the world, he found that not
much remained to be added. Such points, however, as he thought might be improved, and such matter as
appeared necessary to adapt the volume more especially to the wants of this country, he has introduced in the
course of its pages. These additions, amounting to about sixty pages, will be found between brackets, with the
initial of the Editor appended. He trusts they will not detract from the interest of the volume, while he hopes
that its usefulness may be thereby somewhat increased.
With this explanation of his connexion with the work, he leaves it in the hope that it may prove of value to
the sportsman from its immediate relation to his stirring pursuits; to the general reader, from the large amount
of curious information collected in its pages, which is almost inaccessible in any other form; and to the
medical student, from the light it
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