CHAPTER X. 

 THE GREAT DANE. 



HERE is a dog, not an English animal, but one 

 thoroughly acclimatized to the rigours of our climate, 

 and fairly naturalised. Still, it seems as it were only 

 the other day (it is twenty-four years ago) that Mr. 

 Walsh refused to give it a place in the first edition of 

 his " Dogs of the British Isles," which Mr. F. 

 Adcock then requested him to do. 



I do not think that this dog (under which name, 

 following the Great Dane Club's good example, I 

 include boarhounds, German mastiffs, and tiger 

 mastiffs) has made great progress here. Ten years 

 since he appeared in a fair way to become a 

 favourite. The ladies took him up, the men 

 patronised him, but the former could not always 

 keep him in hand. Handsome and symmetrical 

 though he may be, he had always a temper and 

 disposition of his own, which could not be controlled 

 when he became excited. Personally, I never con- 

 sidered the Great Dane suitable as a companion 



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