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journeys through cross-country roads accompanied by one or more of them, and never knew 

 them miss me, even on the darkest night or in the crowded streets of a large town. The 

 favourite colour is pigeon-blue, with white collar and markings. The coat should be straight and 

 hard in texture. The illustration is from a portrait of one of the best bitches ever shown, 

 belonging to Sir H. de Trafford. 



DALMATIANS are always white, with black, liver, or lemon spots, the size of a shilling or less, 

 evenly distributed over the body, head, ears, and even tail, and pure, without mixture of white. 

 There is much of the pointer about this variety, which has long been used for sporting purposes 

 on the continent of Europe. I can testify to their many good qualities as companions and 

 house-dogs. To quote again from the article above mentioned : " It is commonly believed that 

 the spotted carriage-dogs once so frequently kept in stables were about the most useless 



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BULL-DOGS 



The photograph is remarkably good and characteristic of this variety 



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creatures of the dog kind, maintained only for show and fashion. This is a mistake. They were 

 used at a time when a traveling-carriage carried, besides its owners, a large amount of valuable 

 property, and the dog watched the carriage at night when the owners were sleeping at country 

 inns. We feel we owe an apology to the race of carriage-dogs. . . . While this dog is 

 becoming extinct, in spite of his useful qualities, other breeds are invading spheres of work in 

 which they had formerly no part." There is only one point in which I differ from the above, 

 and that is contained in the last sentence. There are a number of enthusiastic breeders very 

 keen on reviving interest in this variety, and I have during the last few years had large entries to 

 judge, so that we shall probably see more of them in the future. 



POODLES are of many sizes and colours. They are very intelligent, easily taught tricks, and 

 much used as performing dogs. They have various kinds of coats : corded, in which the hair 

 hangs in long strands of ringlets ; curly, with a profusion of short curls all over them, something 



