Dog.

THERE are three kinds commonly used in SHOOTING: the Setter, the Pointer, and the Spaniel. It is not designed in this Work to enter into minute Directions for Breaking them; that is a province few Gentlemen chuse to undertake, and very properly have their Dogs made to understand their Business, before they take them into the Field: however, a Method will be here concisely mentioned, and which the Experience of one, who has broke as many and as capital Dogs as any Man of his Age, in this or any other Country, always led him to adopt.

For breaking Pointer or Setter, get a check Collar, with a line nearly twenty yards long, peg the Dog down, and give him the Word (TAKE HEED! or any other,) make him drop, and let him lie a quarter of an hour, walking round, and using the Word; afterwards walk up, and give him a small piece of Cheese. Take the Dog upon a slack line, drop him, and act as above every morning for a Fortnight, until he perfectly knows the word, then hunt him at first singly; when on the strong haunt of Birds, use the word and stop him; reward him as above with a piece of Cheese, and so encourage him until he knows his Game: serve each Dog in the same way for fourteen days; then take two or three Dogs upon check collars, peg down one before the other,

give the word, and make them back each other four Mornings successively; afterwards hunt them together.

To teach Pointers or Setters to bring their Game, get a Rabbit's Skin stuffed; begin by throwing it in a room, and let the Dog have a small line on his Collar; when he takes up the Skin, bring him to you with a gentle pull, with the Skin in his mouth; encourage him three or four times, and then take the line off: when the Dog begins to enjoy it,/ take a small line and run it through a pulley fixt at the top of a room, tie the Rabbit Skin to one end of the line, keep the other in hand, fire a Pistol, and let the Skin drop; the Dog will soon be fond of the sport, and readily bring every head of Game that is shot. Break all the Dogs in this way, and then take two or three together into a room, fire the pistol, and order first one, and then another Dog, to bring the Skin, and they will soon be perfect.

To break a wild Spaniel, fasten a wide leather strap, about four feet long, to his Collar, with a Swivel; this he will tread on, and throw himself over, and will by that means soon be checked, and rendered handy and obedient. Spaniels may be taught to bring the Game by the same mode of instruction as the Pointers or Setters; there should, however, be but one Spaniel in a Team that does this; if more, they will break the Game in struggling which shall carry it.

Directions for the Breeding of Dogs, as they apply generally, have been already given in the 80th

and subsequent pages of the First Volume; but as they will take no long time to repeat, they are here inserted. Never breed from an old Dog and an old Bitch; if one Party must be Aged, it had best be the latter; but Age on either side should be avoided if possible.

Winter Whelps of all sorts of Dogs are best, although the difficulty in rearing the produce, and the loss of the use of the Bitch for some Weeks, are strong reasons against it, in the opinion of many; but the few that survive and are reared amply recompense these Obstacles. these Obstacles. At three or four days old, part of the Sterns should be twisted off, and the Dew claws be cut off with a sharp pair of Scissars. Puppies will soon learn to lap Milk, which will relieve the Mother; at six weeks old they may be separated, and should then be Wormed.

The Dog, to be complete in his Form, should have round, small feet; legs strong, straight, and muscular; the shoulders fall properly into the Back, not upright; Chest well let down; Loins good; back not too long; Elbows play finely in their action, and come well in; Thighs and Gaskins broad and strong*.

* It is a general Remark, that the young of every sort of Dog that are most riotous, for the most part are the best. Mr. BECKFORD Concurs with this Idea respecting Foxhounds, and tells us that a Gentleman in his neighbourhood was so thoroughly convinced of its being usually true, that he complained bitterly of a young Pointer to the Person who gave it him, because he had done no Mischief. Meeting however the same Person some time after, he

Many Recipes for the disorders of Dogs have been already stated; the following will, it is hoped, not uselessly increase the number.

For the Distemper, so soon as the Symptoms appear, give an ounce of Castor-oil, and after its operation has ceased give the following powder, mixed up with Butter into a bolus, every two hours, keeping the Dog warm, and supplying him frequently with warm milk or water-gruel. Should the Medicine occasion sickness or purging, the quantity and frequency of the Doses are to be abated.

Crocus metallorum finely levigated, and white antimonial powder, each six grains, and diaphoretic calx of Antimony, ten grains, for one dose.

It is necessary to remark, that the above dose is sufficient for a Pointer, or Fox-hound, of six or eight months old, and that the quantity is to be varied according to the size and age of the Dog.

Rhubarb and jalap mixed, as much as will lie on a Shilling, is an excellent common physic. For Dogs foul within, five grains of tartar emetic, given in a piece of hogslard. For a Surfeit, one ounce of Sulphur, and half an ounce of Antimony, mixed together; a small ball in Butter, to be given to the Dog, and the sore place well rubbed with a mixture of white Hellebore root powdered, and hogslard; the Dog to be kept from water if he licks the Oint

told him, the Dog, he believed, would prove a good one at last. "How so?" replied his Friend; "it was but the other Day that you said, he was good for nothing."-" True, such was then my Opinion; but he has killed me Nineteen Turkies since that."

ment. To make the hair grow, when the Surfeit or sharp humour prevents the Wound healing, take a piece of fresh butter and boil in a spoon, to which add a common charge of Gunpowder; mix well, and anoint the part at Night; wash off this Ointment with Vinegar in the Morning: repeat this for two or three times.

For the Red Mange.-Two ounces of white Hellebore in powder, mixt in one quart of the grounds of strong Beer, made warm; rub the Dog well all over, and dry it in with a good fire; be careful that it does not touch his Eyes: put the Dog in a warm place, and keep him from Water four hours after the application.

For a Wound from shot. Oil of turpentine, oil of Camomile and Aqua vitæ, of each two ounces, and half a pint of linseed oil, well mixed together. A second is Goose-grease, melted and strained through a Sieve, and an equal quantity of best spirits of Wine and spirits of Turpentine: of the three articles, put rather most of the Goose-grease, which must be fresh, and strained quite clear and fine.

For a deep and bad Wound: Let it be washed until very clean with Milk and Water, and a Poultice of Bread and Milk laid on until a Suppuration is completely formed. The Wound is then to be again washed with Milk and Water, and wiped quite dry with soft Lint; and the Wound is to be lightly covered over with burned Alum, and bound up with a Bandage so as to exclude the Air from the injured part as much as possible. This process