Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ognised thatthe ladies of the hunt shall assist theM.F.H. in this manner. Puppies cared forand reared under individual attention incomfortable homes, necessarily prosper andbecome more healthy and intelligent thanwhen crowded together in the throngedkennels. Lovers of dogs who live in theneighbourhood of a hunt may usually beallowed to take a puppy into their charge,and in the early days of May one of thewhips from the kennel may be expected todrive round to the hall or to the cottage — With an innocent bundle of white and tan,A fat little Foxhound bred to the game,With a rollicking eye and a league long name,And hell play with a cork on the end of a string,And walking a puppy will be just the thing. Doubtless, the rearing of a Foxhoundpuppy is a great responsibility, but it isalso a delight to many who feel that theyare helping in the advancement of a greatnational sport, and there is always thepossibility that the particular puppy mayturn out to be a future Cromwell or Furrier 217
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218 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. or Rambler. There is but one sad side tothe pleasure, and that is that the affectionslavished upon the maturing visitor are boundvery soon to receive the shock of necessaryseverance. Young Foxhounds are not lessmischievous than the puppies of otherbreeds, but neither are they less winning,and when the time comes for the sturdy stones, sharing his bread and cheese atnoon, and certain of a good supper at night.She proved the best of the bitch entry,and the cup went to the stone-breaker.Lord Middleton kindly thought that afive-pound note would be more acceptablethan the cup, and so sent that proposal. Na, na, said the road-maker, I might

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