330 • Modern Dogs. 



show in 1895 I weighed and measured a dog called 

 Morro, the property of Mr. Woodruffe Hill. He 

 stood fully 34 inches at the shoulders and scaled 

 1901b. Height is a great consideration in the breed, 

 the club's standard being from 30 inches to 35 

 inches for a dog, and from 28 inches to 33 inches 

 for a bitch. 



It would appear that, within the last eighty years 

 or so, considerable improvement must have been 

 made in the size and power of the Great Dane. 

 Sydenham Edwards, who wrote of him in 1803, said 

 he was usually about twenty - eight inches in height, 

 though, occasionally, he would be found thirty - one 

 inches. The same writer goes on to describe him : 

 '^ Ears, usually cropped ; eyes, in some, white, in 

 others yellow, or half white or yellow. A beautiful 

 variety, called the Harlequin Dane, has a finely 

 marked body, with large or small spots of black, 

 grey, liver colour, or sandy-red, upon a white ground 

 . . . . The grand figure, bold, muscular action 

 and elegant carriage of the Dane, would recom- 

 mend him to notice, had he no useful properties ; 

 and thus we find him honoured in adding to the 

 pomp of the noble or the wealthy, before whose 

 carriage he trots or gallops in a fine style ; not noisy, 

 but of approved dignity, becoming his intrepid 

 character he keeps his stall in silence," Edwards 



