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iv   PREFACE

his description of the Sporting Spaniels, to Lady Algernon Gordon Lennox for her authoritative paragraphs on the Pekinese, to Mr. Desmond O'Connell for his history of the Fox-terrier, and to Mr. Walter S. Glynn, Mr. Fred Gresham, Major J. H. Bailey, Mr. E. B. Joachim and other specialists whose aid I have enlisted.

In the following chapters the varieties of the dog are classified in the order of (1) Non-Sporting and Utility breeds, (2) Hounds, Gundogs and other Sporting breeds, (3) the Terriers, (4) Toy and Miniature breeds.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG

THE ENGLISH MASTIFF

THE BULLDOG

THE ST. BERNARD

THE NEWFOUNDLAND

THE GREAT DANE.

THE DALMATIAN

THE COLLIE

THE OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG

  • THE CHOW CHOW . .

  • THE POODLE .

  • THE SCHIPPERKE . .

  • THE BLOODHOUND .

  • THE OTTERHOUND .

  • THE IRISH WOLFHOUND

  • THE DEERHOUND . .

  • THE BORZOI, OR RUSSIAN

  • THE GREYHOUND .

  • THE WHIPPET .

  • THE FOXHOUND .

  • THE HARRIER AND THE BEAGLE

  • THE POINTER ,

  • THE SETTERS .

  • THE RETRIEVERS

  • THE SPORTING SPANIEL

  • THE BASSET-HOUND .

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    ROBERT LEIGHTON.

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