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or as a domestic dog. He might act as a watch 

 or guard tied up in the yard, or, may be, could 

 be utilised in hunting big game, or in being hunted 

 by it in return, but he always seemed out of place 

 following a lady or gentleman. When the order was 

 in force in London and elsewhere, commanding all 

 dogs to be muzzled or led on a chain, the Great Dane 

 received a severe blow. Muzzling amazed him, and 

 made him savage, the restraint of chain or lead was 

 not to be borne. The dog pulled ; his fair mistress 

 had either to free him from the chain or be over- 

 powered. She did the former, and her unmanage- 

 able pet chevied a terrier across the road, and the 

 mischief was done. 



In that suburb in which I reside the Dane was 

 numerous enough before the rabies scare and the 

 muzzling order. He could not be confined with 

 safety, so he had to be got rid of, and where once a 

 dozen boarhounds reigned not one is now to be 

 seen. This is, I think, an advantage few owners of 

 dogs find fault with, for he, when not under control, 

 was fond of fighting, and his immense strength and 

 power gave him a great advantage over any other 

 dog. Some twenty years or so ago, in the ring at a 

 provincial show in Lancashire, Mr. Adcock's then 

 celebrated Great Dane, called Satan, got at logger- 

 heads with a Newfoundland, and the latter, poor 



