CHAPTER VIII. 



THE DALMATIAN. 



SOME early writers have told us that this dog was 

 used in Denmark to draw carts and other con- 

 veyances utilised by the thrifty Dane and his wife 

 to take their commodities from place to place. 

 Perhaps he or an animal something like him was 

 trained for work of this kind, and consequently 

 being a great favourite in that country, he easily 

 obtained the name of " Danish dog," by which he 

 is often alluded to, even by so recent an authority 

 as Youatt. 



Again, we are informed that he first came from 

 Spain, and Jardine, in his " Naturalist's Library," 

 mentions a picture of a spotted dog, time the 

 middle of the sixteenth century, from which he 

 believes our modern Dalmatian must have been 

 descended. 



Aldrovandus, whom I have had occasion to allude 

 to on several occasions, and who wrote about the 

 same date, gives us a picture of a dog which he 



