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Excerpt from The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases, Etc;, Etc;, Of Dogs, and an Account of the Different Kinds of Game, With Their Habitats; Also Hints to Shooters, With Various Useful Recipes, Etc;, Etc <p>The Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, can fail to be struck with its numerous anecdotes, illustrative of his amiable fondness for dogs? How interesting his simple story of the loss, and of the curious incidents connected with the recovery of Pincher l for whom he offered a reward of five pounds sterling, and would sooner have lost a thousand pounds, than to have lost him in that way! And then, how affecting the story of his beloved son in his last moments, calling him back to his bedside to say, Father, you will take care of poor Pincher. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.