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CHAPTER VIII.

THE DALMATIAN

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CHAPTER VIII.

THE DALMATIAN.

SOME early writers have told us that this dog was used in Denmark to draw carts and other conveyances utilised by the thrifty Dane and his wife to take their commodities from place to place. Perhaps he or an animal something like him was trained for work of this kind, and consequently being a great favourite in that country, he easily obtained the name of "Danish dog," by which he is often alluded to, even by so recent an authority as Youatt.

Again, we are informed that he first came from Spain, and Jardine, in his "Naturalist's Library," mentions a picture of a spotted dog, time the middle of the sixteenth century, from which he believes our modern Dalmatian must have been descended.

Aldrovandus, whom I have had occasion to allude to on several occasions, and who wrote about the same date, gives us a picture of a dog which he

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