TerkierDoos EI€, Qf^ HIBMRY OF CONGRESS. I |) H # |f,.,ol^|a,snsht|[o I I ^/^// Mh I ! UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, f TERRIER DOGS: SHOWING THE BEST METHODS OP BREEDING, REABItJG, FEEDING, CROPPING, PHYSICING, CURE OF DISEASES, ETC., WITH A DESCEIPTION OF THE I>OINTS AND PBOPEKTIES OF THE BULL DOG, BULL TER- EIEE, BLACK AND TAN, SCOTCH, SKYE AND TOY TERBIEES, ITALIAN GREYHOUND, PUG DOG AND KING CHARLES SPANIEL ; ALSO, RATS AND RAT KILLING, • WITH CANINE, RATTING AND BADGER BAITING RULES, AND TRAINING DOGS FOR THE PIT; TOGETHER WITH THE ART OF LEARNING DOGS TRICKS. BY ED. J.AMES, AUTHOR OF "THE GAME COCK," "MANUAL OF SPOKTINa EULES,** 'ETC?' PUBLISHED BY /^ ^f f ^i^^ ^ ED. JAMES, 88 AND 90 CENTRE STREET, NEW YORI&^ NEW yOKK CLIPPER BUILDING. 1873. Price, $1* Second Edition. 't3 '2- . Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1?73, BY ED. JAMES, ^ ^ Zn the oflSce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyrighted at Stationers' Hall, London, England. M. T. TYLER, Printer, and 90 Centre street. New York. PREFACE. There are few households indeed where we do not find a dog of some kind. Some are kept for use, others for amusement. While almost everyone has a general knowledge of what dogs should be, few understand the points which render them valuable. To those who own dogs or intend to purchase, it would be well to carefully peruse this little volume, which combines conciseness with practicability and useful information. Dog like other flesh is liable to ills of various kinds, and they need looking after from birth till death. How to do this properly, with remedies for their vari- ous diseases, is herein given. Canine contests may not suit the majority, but "everybody to his fancy."- No one, however, can consistently find fault with en- couraging the destruction of that detestable and de- structive animal known as the rat. For this reason the Canine and Ratting Rules are introduced, as also the mode of Training dogs for these purposes. Those having pet dogs will find an interesting chapter upon the method of learning them various Tricks, and it is hoped and believed that this volume will find its way wherever it will be of use, CONTENTS. Terrier Dogs, etc. How to Breed Dogs 7 Removing Dewclaws 8 Cropping Terriers 8 A Little of All Sorts 9 The Bull Dog. His Appearance and Courage lo Points and Properties ii Principal Breeders 13 The Bull Terrier — Points and Properties 15 The Black and Tan — Points and Properties 16 The Rough Terrier — Points and Properties i3 The Skye Terrier — Points and Properties iS The Italian Greyhound — Points and Properties 20 The Pug Dog — Points and Properties 21 King Charles Spaniel 22 Toy Terriers 23 Jacko, the Wonder 24 Dog Shows 25 Training for the Pit 26 Dog Fighting Rules 27 English Dog Fighting Rules 28 Rat Killing Rules 29 Badger Baiting Rules 30 The Rat — Nature and Fecundity 31 How much Rats Consume 32 About Ferrets 33 What Cats and Traps will Do 33 The Rat's Greatest Enemy 34 Learning Dogs to Kill Rats 34 Art of Learning Dogs Tricks— To Leap ; To Walk Erect 36 To Dance ; To Sit and Lie Down ; To Beg 37 To Speak For It ; To Fetch and Carry ■. 38 To Bring his Tail in his Mouth 39 To Stand on his Head and Walk on his Hind Legs 40 To Sing 40 To Feign Death ; The Lump of Sugar Trick 41 Diseases and their Cure — Hydrophobia 42 Inflammation of the Eye 42 Cataract or Scum 42 Inflammation of the Bowels 42 Dumb Madness 42 Canker in the Ear 43 Jaundice 43 Worms 43 Mange 44 Distemper 45 Diarrhoea 45 Costiveness 45 Encysted Tumors ; Parturition 46 TEKRIER DOGS, ETC. HOW TO BKEED DOGS. Do not be satisfied with the appearance of the Dog or Bitch which you intend to breed from. Ascertain their pedigree as far back as possible, say at least four genera- tions. The male should be not under two years old and the female at least fifteen months. The male, if in health and well used is not unfit to breed with, till his eighth year, the female under like circumstances until her sixth year. They should both be in perfect health. The fe- male goes with young two months and three days, and has from four to a dozen young at a birth. The pups are born blind, and their eyes open about the tenth day. The female should not be permitted to breed oftener than three times in two years, nor to rear more than five pujDpies. The pups should not be suckled longer than six weeks. After weaning the pups will feed voraciously, but should not be given as much as they .will eat or they will surfeit themselves. ^ Their diet may consist of well boiled oatmeal porridge, mashed potatoes, with skim milk, or new milk, to dilute the mess; give it cool, and do not add the milk until the mess be cool. 'Feed three times a day. Give the food fresh and keep the vessels clean. Let the pups have a bed of clean straw over pine shavings or pine sawdust, the tur- pentine contained in the wood banishes fleas. Examine the puppies occasionally to see whether they are lousy; a decoction of tobacco destroys the vermin. Xiet there be a supply of fresh water always within their reach, and let them have an open yard in which they may disport themselves. If you hav'nt a grass plot, get some nice fresh p;rass cut twice or three times a week, accessible to them. The dog is the best physician in his own sick- ness, and will resort to the grass with much satisfaction if his stomach be out of order. At about four months 8 - CROPPING TERRIERS. old, the first set of teeth, or milk teeth, begin to drop out, and are replaced by the permanent set, which change ia complete between the sixth and seventh month. The tuskrj have acquired their length about the twelfth or thii'teenth month. At about two years old, a yellow circle makes its appearance around the base of the tusks, which grad- ually develops itself, with more and more intensity, until the third year. About this time, the edges of the front or cutting teeth, begin to be worn down, and the httle nick on the crown of the lateral incisors disappear. As the fourth year approaches, the tusks lose their points, and the teeth present a gradual progress of decay, until the fifth or sixth year, when the incisors begin to fall and the tusks become discolored over their entire surface, . At his eighth year a few gray hairs will show themselves around his eyes and the comers of his mouth. These appearances increase in intensity to the eleventh or twelfth year. BEMOVING DEWCLAWS. It frequently happens that puppies are born with a fifth toe upon the hind foot; this is called a dewclaw. This should be taken off between the third or fourth week. The modus operandi is as follows: Let the pup be firmly held by one person and the second person taking a pair of large, sharp scissors, after having felt for the proper place to cut, proceed to cut off the extraneous member — do this unhes- itatingly and with firmness. Some think this inhuman, but the pain is momentary and the tongue of the dam will soon heal it. CKOPPING TERRIERS. In cropping a Black and Tan, or any other terrier, the following directions should be observed: Draw the ears over the head until the points meet; with a very sharp pair of scissors, cut both points off to the length you de- sire; then with a single cut to each, from below upwards, cut away the hinder portion of the flaps of the ears up to the point. In a week they will be aU healed up. The tail of a well bred pup should never be meddled with; and if the dog. be badly bred, and his tail, consequently, coarse, he is not worth keeping. A LITTLE OF ALL SORTS. 9 A LITTLE OF ALL SOKTS. Useful Information for O'^^nees of Dogs. Staggers and Fits generally happen in warm weather. Throw water on them, if convenient. If not, bleed in neck if you have lancets. If not, with your knife slit the ears, which you can cause to adhere together again; or run your knife across two or three bars next the teeth. Bitches coming off heat are more subject to this than dogs in good health. To make a bitch inclined to copulate give seven drops tincture of cantharides twice a day till effect is produced, which generally takes about six days. To make a dog fine his coat give a tablespoonful of tar in oatmeal. Make bolus. For wounds apply a poultice for a day or two then ap- ply Frier's Balsam covering up the place. To make a Seton^ take a dozen or two strands of a horse's tail, plait them, rub blistering ointment on them. Pass it through two or three inches of the skin with a curved sur- gical needle. Tie the ends together. Move daily. If a dog is poisoned, give teacupful of castor oil. After he has vomited well continue to pour ohve oil down his throat, and rub his belly. To reduce the time a bitch is in heat, give her a little nitre in water, and a dose of calomel, four grains or there- abouts, followed by salts or aloes. Bilious Fever, is caused by want of exercise and too high feeding. Calomel, six or eight grains; or- in an ob- stinate case, turpeth mineral or yellow-mercury, six to twelve grains, in a bolus. To REMOVE Fleas. — Scotch snuff steeped in gin is infalli- ble, but must be used with great care, and not above a teaspoonful of snuff to a pint of gin, as the cure, if over- done is a deadly poison. For Lice use a small quantity of mercurial ointment, reduced by adding hog*s lard to it, say an equal quantity, rubbed along the top of the dog's back never fails. The greatest care must be taken to keep the animal warm. Bones given to dogs habitually not only clean the teeth, but aid in their formation, and also increase the general health of the whole system. THE BULL D0&. HIS APPEAEANCE AND COUKAGE. The Bull Dog tates his name from haying in oldei^ times been employed in fighting the bull. He is low in stat- ure, deep chested and strongly made about the shoulders and thighs, the muscles of both, of which are extremely developed. His head is broad, his nose short and under jaw projects beyond the upper which gives him a fierce and disagreeable aspect. His eyes are distant and promi- nent and have a peculiar suspicious-like leer which with the distension of his nostrils gives him a contemptuous look, and, from his teeth being always seen, he has the con- stant appearance of grinning when he is perfectly placid. He is the most ferocious and unrelenting of the canine tribe, and may be considered courageous beyond every other creature in the world, for he will attack any animal, whatever his magnitude may be. The brain of the bull dog is sensibly smaller than that of any other animal, and it is owing to this that he is inferior to all other species in everything relating to intelligence. He is scarcely capable THE BULL DOG. 11 of any education, and is fitted for nothing but combat and ferocity. Nothing can exceed the fury with which the bull dog falls upon all other animals, and the invincible obsti- nacy with which he maintains his hold. Whenever a bull dog attacks any of the extremities of the body it is universally considered a mark of his degeneracy from the original purity of the blood. The ligaments of the bull dog, are not considered at their full strength until he is at bast two years old, and some say they are not "in their prime untU they have attained four or five years. POINTS AND PROPERTIES OF A PERFECT BULL dog: The ears should be very small and should be placed on the top of the head. They should be either "rose," "button" or "tulip" ears. The "rose ear" folds at the back and the tip laps over outwards, exposing part of the inside. The "button ear" only differs from the "rose" in the falling of the tip, which laps over in front hiding the interior completely. The "tulip ear" is nearly erect, and is the least desirable form. The skull should be very large, and the cheeks should extend well beyond the eyes. Breadth of the skull should be in comparison to length. The forehead should be well wrinkled, and not prominent as in the "King Charles" Spaniel. The eyes should be as nearly black as possible. The shape of the opening of the Hds should be quite round. The eyes should be moderately large, and should be quite in front of the head, as far from the ear and as near to the nose as possible; very far apart, but not so far as to interfere with the prominence of the cheeks, and neither prominent, nor deeply set in the head. The corners of the eyes should be at right angles to a line drawn down the centre of the face. The "stop" is an indentation between the eyes. It should extend some considerable distance up the head. The face, measured from the front of the cheek bone to the end of the nose, should be very short, and this point cannot be carried to too great an excess. The wrinkles should be deep and close together. The muzzle should turn upwards. The covering of the teeth, which should not be seen 12 THE BULL DOG. ■when the mouth is shut. The nose should be large and black. The breadth at the termination of the jaws should be as great as possible, and the lower jaw should project consid- erably in advance of the upper one, so that the nose is very- much set back. The lower jaw should turn upwards. The neck should be moderate in length, of considerable thickness and should be well arched at the back. The chest should be very great in width and should be deep and round. The body should be very broad at the shoulders and comparatively small at the loins. There should be a faU in the back behind the# shoulder grand the spine should rise at the loins, falling again very much towards the stern, and forming an elegant arch. The ribs should be well rounded. The stern should be moderate in length. A slight crook is no objection, but a screwed or notted stern is not to be desired. A greater length may be allowed, provided the tail curl at the end, and form what is called a '^ing tail." A little thickness at the root is an advantage. The carriage of the stern should be downwards, and the dog should not be able to raise his stern above the level of his back. The situation should be low down at the insertion. The fore legs should be very thick in the calves, rather bowed in shape, (more so than the hind legs) but not so as to make the back appear long. The hind legs should be moderate in length, but greater than that of the fore legs, so as to elevate the loins. The hocks should approach each other, which involves the turning out of the stifles. The fore feet should be moderately round and well split up between the toes, they should be straight, that is, neither turned outwards nor inwards, and should be rather small in size. The hind feet are not expected to be so round as the fore- feet, but they should not be long like a terrier's, and they should be split up between the toes. They should be turned outwards and rather small in size The color should be *'whole,'* that is, unmixed with white; unless the dog be all white, which is, in 'that case, consider- ed a "whole" color. The tint should be either red, red-smut (that is red with black muzzle), fawn, fawn-smut, fallow, fallow-smut, brin- dled, white^ or blue fawn Cthat is fawn with bl^ie muzzle). BREEDERS OF BULL DOGS. 13 A dog may be pied witli any of the above colors, but a "whole" color is to be preferred. Proportion — No property should be so much in excess as to destroy the general symmetry of the dog. Carriage — The dog should roll in his gait. He generally runs rather sideways. His hind legs should not be lifted high as he runs, so that his hind feet seem to skim the ground. Weight — This may be from about fifteen to sixty pounds. PEINCIPAL BEEEDERS OF BULL DOGS. The English Bull Dog iff gradually disappearing from the animal kingdom. Jemmy Shaw the famous dog fancier and ex-pugilist of London, Eng., about thirty years ago had a white dog called "Tumbler" who was a descendant of the breed of dogs, known as the Tumbler breed, or Screw-tail dog, he was acknowledged by the fancy to be a first class high bred dog. Jim Burns, a well known Eng- lish pugilist, had a brace of bulls named Crib and Bosa "which were also celebrated for their high breed. The Clerkenwell Green dog, all white and not very large, was in great demand a few years later for stock purposes, but according to Harry Jennings* opinion, the handsomest bull dog in or near London was that owned by Jack Gill, of Deptford, this dog was a brindle and white and was a Tumbler breed, weighing about twenty-one pounds. The late George Moore formerly of Liverpool, but for a long time a resident of New York, owned one of the highest and best bred bull dogs of his time. There may be a few of the old stock left, but they are "few and far between." THE BULL TERRIER. The Bull Terrier is bred from tlie Bull Dog and Englisli Terrier Hound, the last named being used for bringing out the fox when he is secreted in his hole and the Fox Hounds cannot get at him, and is noted for extraordinary- speed, scent, and gameness, in short, he will face anything. The first cross of Bull Terrier is generally too much like the Bull Dog, but the second shows in perfection all the attributes required for the purpose the Bull Terrier is used. The best breed of Bull Terriers are those that come from the North of England, Yorkshire and Staffordshire. They are used for fighting, rat killing, coon, badger, and bear baiting, and make perhaps the best watch dogs. The Bull Terrier is becoming a more domestic and tracta- ble successor to the Bull Dog uniting, as he does, the most desirable quahties and presenting a far more inviting ap- pearance. Whatever objections may be raised to some of the uses THE BULL TERRIER. 15 terriers are employed in, dogs "wlII be dogs and "delight to bark and bite/' as Watts the psalmist has to truthfully sung. No one however has such a passionate love for that de- testable "varmint" the rat, as to object to the destruction of the same. It is as natural for a good dog to kill rats as for a cat to kill mice. POINTS AND PEOPEETIES OF A PEKFECT BULL TEERIEE. His head should be long, the muzzle sharp, the jaw level — not underhung, which is a disfigurement and also prevents a dog punishing his adversary. The under jaw should display great power, and the neck should be long. The chest is wide, the shoulders sloping and powerful, the loins and back strong, the hind quarters and thighs muscular. The tail should be fine and sting-like but not bare, carried gaily but not "hooped." The fore legs should be straight with a slight angle at the pastern. The bone of the leg must be as large as possible and the muscle of the fore arm as well as the ten- dons of the pasterns and toes, proportionably strong. If the foot is not perfectly straight, it must turn in, not out. In shape it should be round and cat-like, but very highly arched toes are apt to give way. Sole hard and thick. The hind quarters must be as strong as possible, wide as well as deep. Bone of pastern strong and large; hockn strong and straight. The coat throughout is fine and short, and it should lie smoothly as in a weU dressed racehorse. Pure white, with a black eye and nose, is the most approved color, but white with colored ears or a patch on the eyes is highly appreciated. As in the Bull Dog the color should be "whole" and, when spotted, correspond with the colors oi the Bull Dog. His weight varies from twelve up to thirty-five pounds 02 more. His appearance resembles that of the terrier, except that he is wider across the skull and possesses more strength and stamiaa. THE BLACK MD TAI TERRIER. POINTS AND PROPEETIES. The Black and Tan English Terrier should have a long fine muzzle, not underhung, but, if anything, the upper jaw projecting over the lower. The skull shoTild be flat and narrow between the ears; the eye must be small and black; the nose black; the ears, if not left on, must be well cropped, erect, and long; if entire, they should be small, not tuHped, and free from any tan behind. The neck tapering, musci:dar, and well cut under the lower jaw. The shoulders deep, and well set back. The loins strong, ribs round, and the back ribs deep, the body well knit together. The legs straight, and the feet round and small. The tail must be fine, carried straight and not curled. The color, which is a principal point, must be raven black, with rich mahogany tao, well penciled on each toe; the tan should be clear and free from any admixture of black. Above the eyes there should be a distinct spot of THE ROUGH TERRIER. 17 tan. The body should be black, with a rich tan on the fore legs half way up them. The breast should have two distinct marks of tan. The jaw should also be well tanned up the gullet, and the cheek divided, having a small tan spot a little less than that over the eyes. The upper jaw should also be nicely tanned and run in conformity with the tanning on the lower jaw. The hind legs should be per- fectly free from tan on the outside, but on the inside there shoiild be some tan. The vent should have a small tan spot, and there should also be tan half way up the tail. The weight varies froi^i ten to twenty-five pounds. THE ROUGH TERRIER. Rough Terriers are no doubt all descended from the broken-haired Scotch dog, with which all must be familiar, but whether the modern silken-hair has been developed by crossisg with the Maltese, or by selection is a moot ques- tion. In general shape this dog resembles the smooth va- riety, but he is slightly longer in frame, and not so elegant in his proportions. The chief peculiarity is in coat and color. The roughness of the coat about the muzzle and face makes the head look larger, and takes off a good deal from the lively look so remarkable in the smooth dog. The modern Rough Terrier is of a blue color, with rich fawn (approaching to a tan) legs, the under part being 18 THE SKYE TERRIER. all of the latter color. The tail is carried higher than that of the smooth dog. In the old-fashioned strain the col- ors are either grizzled, black, with pale tan spots, or gen- erally of a grizzled black-brown, sometimes quite gray and constituting the pepper-and-salt color. Sometimes the broken-haired dog is white, more or less marked with blue or some other color, but the less the better. POINTS AND PKOPEETIES OF A PEKFECT ROUGH TERRIER. The points of the Rough Terrier are the same as regards shape and make as the Smooth Enghsh Terrier; but the coat differs in being long, and of three different shades, that on the back being a blue slate; the face, head and legs a silky silvery fawn; the whole undermined by short tanned hair. The older the dog the more silvery he gets. The Scotch Terrier is also the same in shape. . His col- or may be pepper or mustard, or pepper and mustard; in each case m ore or less mixed with salt. The Toy dog of these strains is the same in all but weight, which should not exceed seven pounds, the smaller the better. THE SKYE TERRIER. POINTS AND PROPERTIES. This dog is, with the exception of the Turnspit, and his foreign representative, the Barbet, the longest of aU dogs in proportion to his height. From the nose to the tip of his tail, when extended, the Skye should measure at least three times its height, and sometimes it is met with three and a half times as long. At the same time its coat is so developed that its shape is nearly very like the door-mat to which it is so often compared — ears, legs, and tail aU verg- ing in one mass, with the exception of the tip of the latter, and of the feet. In a well coated specimen the eyes are only to be guessed at, and even the nose is often obscured, but generally they are each more or less visible on a close inspectioii. The head looks large from the profusion of hair with THE SKYE TERRIER. 19 wliicli it is invested but it is not really so. Its shape is not easily got at, but it is somewhat wide, while the neck is un- usually long. The eyes, which are, from the same cause scarcely visible, are found, on separating the over-hanging hair, to be keen, expressive, small, and generally of a dark color, either black or, brown, as are the nose and palate. The ears are of good size, that is, about three inches long, clothed thickly with hair, which should mingle with that of the face and neck, and should fall, but not quite so close to the cheek, owing to the quantity of hair by which they are surrounded. Many breeders, however, prefer the prick ear, asserting that the strains possessing it are harder and better at vermin. The mouth must be level, with a large and black nose. The body is too much coated to show its shape, and the form of the shoulder and backribs can only be ascertained by handling. The-fore legs are generally more or less bandy; there are no dewclaws, and the feet are not very strong, having a tendency to flatness, and thinness of the soles. Tail long, and carried horizontally, but with a sweep, so that the tip is a little below the level of the back. Weight from ten to eighteen pounds, the bitches being nearly as heavy as the dogs — ^perhaps about two pounds less. The colors most fancied are steel with black tips, fawn with dark brown tips to the ears and tail, dark slaty-blue (slightly grizzled, but without any absolute admixture of white) black, and pure fawn — ^the order named being in ac- cordance with the value of each. The hair should be long, straight, and shining like that of the tail of the horse, any appearance of silkiness, wooliness, or curl being to be a- voided, excepting on the top of the head, where it may have a slight tendency to the first named condition. THE ITALIAN GREYHOUm. All authorities "unite in the opinion that this beautiful little dog must be an English smooth greyhound in every- thing but size, which is tantamount to stating that it must be one of the most graceful, or, perhaps, the most grace- ful and racing-looking creature on the face of the earth. It is neither more nor less than a small greyhound, for which Italy was celebrated, and which perhaps was origi- nally bred as a distinct breed. It must have become dwarfed from climate or constant "in-breeding," but it has never been in any way deformed by the means adojDted to decrease its size. POINTS AND PEOPERTIES OF A PERFECT ITALIAN GREYHOUND. The head should be wide behind, and larger in circum- ference if measured over the ears than over the eyebrows. The jaw should be veiy lean, with a good muscular devel- opment of the cheek. The eye of the Italian variety, how- ever, should not be so large or fuU as that of the English dog. The ear of the Italian should be exceedingly small and falling flat, except when the animal is animated. It may then be slightly raised, but never pricked. Blue and fawn are the favorite colors; the latter should be of an auburn hue. Various colors, however, are fash- ionable for a time and then fancy changes. At one time cream colored dogs commanded the highest price, then white with black nose. At one time bla, by laying hold of the part present- ing with a i3iece of tape round it, or a strip of cahco. DISEASES AND THEIR CURE. 47 As soon as all the wlielps are bom, the bitch may be al- lowed to rest a short time, unless she is very much exhaust- ed, when the brandy and gruel may be given. After an hour, in the usual way, a little lukewarm gruel may be al- lowed; and in the course of four hours another quantity of the same. No meat of any kind should be given for three days, durmg which time the state of the bowels should be regulated, if necessary, by castor oil; and milk thickened with oatmeal or wheat-flour, or broth with the same thick- ening, or with arrowroot, if diarrhoea is present, should be the only food. Sometimes, after the first week, the whole litter is too great a draw upon the system, and part must be removed iiom. the bitch, and brought up by hand, if it is wished to preserve them, feeding them from a com- mon baby's bottle, with the India-rubber nipple now so commonly in use; but a very thick and stout one should be selected or the puppy will compress it too much with its tongue. When the bitch is much reduced by her suck- ling, she sometimes is subject to fits, for which the only remedy is the removal of her whelps, and the exhibition oJl stroxig beef tea, with bark, and ammonia in addition; to- gether with port wine and aiTowroot, if the bowels are re- laxed. After the first week, and, indeed, gradually during the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, meat must be added to the other food, especially if the bitch has had much animal food before whelping. If the bitch is inclined to devour her young, she should be allowed to remain very quiet, and very little animal food should be given her. A dose of oil should always be given a short time before her whelping time; and if she should, nevertheless, devour them, another dose should follow, so as to carry off the effects of so heating a meal. If a foster-mother is determined upon, all that is neces- sary is to muzzle her until the strange whelps have sucked her, and lain for some time with her own. If the bitch has been "put by," as it is called, and is not in whelp at the end of nine weeks from her "heat," she will be fat and indolent, with her teats full of milk. At this time it ds better to take a little blood from her, and to give her a smart purge once or twice, together with vege- table food; after which she will generally recover her health and spirits, and become much as usual at the expiration of another month or five weeks. GAME COCK: BEING A PEACTICAL TEEATISE ON BREEDING, REARING, TRAINING, FEED- ING, TRIMMING, MAINS, HEELING, SPURS, ETC, ETC., ETC. TOGETHER WITH AN EXPOSURE OF COCKERS' TRICKS, THE ORIGm AND CURE OF DISEASES, AND THE REVISED COOKING RULES GOVERNING ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. BY ED. JAMES. PUBLISHED BY ED.^ JAMES, 88 AND 90 CENTRE STREET, N. Y NEW YORK CLIPPER BUILDING. CLOTH, GILT COYER, ILLUSTRATED, $1.25.