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Great Dane suitable as a companion 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 early orders came into 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 overpowered. 

 She did the former, and her unmanageable pet 

 chevied a terrier across the road, and the m.ischief 

 was done. 



In that suburb in which I reside the Dane was 

 numerous enough before the various rabies scares 

 and the muzzling orders. 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-five years or so ago, in the ring 

 at a provincial show in Lancashire, Mr. Adcock's 

 then celebrated Great Dane, called Satan, got at 



