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elaborate instructions how to train the " water 

 dog " (poodle) for sporting purposes. Youatt 

 (1845) gi yes us another excellent drawing of a 

 poodle a white dog with dark ears and a few 

 patches on his body, and not at all unlike that in 

 the " Sportsman's Cabinet." 



Jardine, in his " Naturalist's Library," alludes to 

 the "Water dog or poodle," which, he says, was 

 of German origin, " and in its most perfect state is 

 not of British race. It rose into favour first in 

 Germany, and during the revolutionary wars was 

 carried by the troops into France, and only in the 

 latter campaign became familiar to the British in 

 Spain and the Netherlands." This is probably 

 the case, but we fancy at no time in its history 

 in this country was it used in connection with the 

 gun to the same extent as it was on the continent. 



A recent writer in Le Chenil says the poodle is 

 undoubtedly a dog of very old family one of our 

 oldest races of dogs. As early as 30 A.D., the 

 poodle was sculptured on bas-reliefs, partially 

 clipped on his coat as he is to be found now ; 

 Conrad Gesner wrote of him in 1555 ; he was put 

 on canvas by the leading animal painters in the 

 sixteenth century. In Martin de Vos's familiar 

 picture, " Tobit and his Dog," there is no mistaking 

 the shaved or clipped poodle, whilst even earlier than 



