THE COACH-DOG, OR DALMATIAN 715 



he has turned out very staunch. His form is hand- 

 some, as if a medium between the foxhound and 

 pointer ; his head, however, is more acute than that 

 of the latter, and his ears fully longer ; his general 

 colour is white, and his entire skin covered with small 

 black or reddish-brown spots. The pure breed has 

 tanned cheeks and black ears. In size he is consider- 

 ably smaller than the Danish dog. A barbarous 

 opinion prevailed at one time in this country, that 

 the Dalmatian looked better with his ears cropped ; 

 and we remember the time when hardly one that we 

 met with but had been denuded of those eleeant 

 appendages, but happily this depraved taste has now 

 become nearly extinct. 



Lord Maynard lost a dog of this kind in France, 

 which he in vain endeavoured to recover while in that 

 country. He returned to England, where he had not 

 long arrived before the dog appeared at his residence ; 

 but the mode of his return has remained for ever 

 unexplained, though it is probable that the dog's 

 sagacity, when he had made his escape from confine- 

 ment, prompted him to go to the sea-coast, where he 

 must have found means to get on board some vessel 

 bound tor the opposite shore. 



