The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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... given ? Who will be able to discover , from any written account , the difference between the springer and the cocker , or between the Clumber and Sussex spaniels ? Who , again , will tell us the colours and forms of the Skye and Dandie ...
... given ? Who will be able to discover , from any written account , the difference between the springer and the cocker , or between the Clumber and Sussex spaniels ? Who , again , will tell us the colours and forms of the Skye and Dandie ...
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... drawn from the life , the specimens selected being of the most perfect symmetry and of the purest breed within my reach . For many of them I am indebted to gentlemen who have given up their best energies to improve vi PREFACE .
... drawn from the life , the specimens selected being of the most perfect symmetry and of the purest breed within my reach . For many of them I am indebted to gentlemen who have given up their best energies to improve vi PREFACE .
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... given up their best energies to improve the peculiar strain which has enlisted their attention , and for the facilities which they have afforded me I here beg to record my most sincere thanks . Book I. contains the Natural History of ...
... given up their best energies to improve the peculiar strain which has enlisted their attention , and for the facilities which they have afforded me I here beg to record my most sincere thanks . Book I. contains the Natural History of ...
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... given at length , and in terms which will , it is hoped , be intelligible to all . My readers will therefore perceive that I have omitted no information at all likely to be interesting to the lover of the dog , which a long experience ...
... given at length , and in terms which will , it is hoped , be intelligible to all . My readers will therefore perceive that I have omitted no information at all likely to be interesting to the lover of the dog , which a long experience ...
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... by respectable authorities , and for this reason we have given inser- tion to the above extract . * Bell's British Quadrupeds , pp . 196-7 . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS . In every variety the dog is more 6 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... by respectable authorities , and for this reason we have given inser- tion to the above extract . * Bell's British Quadrupeds , pp . 196-7 . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS . In every variety the dog is more 6 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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