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DOMESTICATED DOGS FOR THE GUX. 





The Dalmatian Dog:. (Youatt.) 



about 24 or 25 inclies high, and resembling the pointer in his 

 shape, but usually having his ears cropped, as shown in the en- 

 graving. He is beautifully spotted with black on a white ground, 

 his chief merit consisting in the nearly uniform size of the spots 

 (which should be from about an inch in diameter), and in their 

 distinctness from the white in which they are imbedded ; and 

 being remarkably fond of horses, and of road-work with them, 

 he has been long employed in this country to accompany our car- 

 riages as an ornamental appendage ; but this fashion has of late 



