The horse and the hound - their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing (1842) (14780318254)

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Title: The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Nimrod, 1778-1843
Subjects: Horses Hounds Horsemanship
Publisher: Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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THE HOUND. SAGACITY AND FIDELITY OF THE DOG HIS ORIGIN AND HISTORY REPUTATION OF THE DOGS OF BRITAIN ENGLISH BLOOD-HOUND AND STAG-HOUND THE FOX-HOUND DIFFICULTY OF BREEDING A PACK SYM-METRY SIZE DISTEMPER — KENNEL MANAGEMENT COLOUR THE TONGUE, OR CRY OF HOUNDS AGE SEPARATION OF THE SEXES NAMING OF HOUNDS VALUE OF A PACK THE HARRIER THE STAG-HOUND THE BEAGLE THE GREY-HOUND THE TERRIER. From the combination of various causes, the his-tory of no animal is more interesting than that ofthe dog. First, his intimate association with man,not only as his valuable servant and protector, butas his constant and faithful companion throughout m !!ite: : ■ \ 1 fflli
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■r^: p. -^^ ,\J^,f^,«>^»\^\\un* SAGACITY OF THE DOG. 315 all tlie v^icissitudes of life. Secondly, from hisnatural endowments, not consisting solely in theexquisite delicacy of one individual sense, that fine-ness of olfactory nerve by which the earth and airsend forth showers of perfumes ; not merely combin-ing memory with reflection that soars above instinc-tive preservation or self-enjoyment; but qualities ofthe mind that absolutely stagger us in the contem-plation of them, and which we can alone account forin the gradation existing in that wonderful systemwhich (by different links of one vast chain, extend-ing from the first to the last of all things, till itforms a perfect whole) is placed, as Professor Har-wood elegantly expresses it, in the doubtful con-fines of the material and spiritual worlds/ Itmight have been instinct that enabled Ulyssessdog to recognise him on his re-landing in Ithaca,after an absence which must have set the powersof memory at defiance ; and he re