THE DALMATIAN DOG. 137 
feature in his character. Most other dogs soon tire of hard road- 
work, and refuse to accompany a carriage day after day for the 
fifteen or twenty miles which is probably the average distance 
travelled by private conveyances; but the Dalmatian is always 
pleased to be so employed, and if he is allowed the run of the 
stables and enough food. has all that he cares for. Of his own 
accord he places himself close behind the heels of the horses, where 
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he is safe from the control of all external circumstances, and rarely 
leaves his berth for any temptation, except when the carriage is 
stopped, when he looks about him and assumes the air of any 
other of his kind. The English pointer also follows a carriage 
well, but seems to do so from his associating it with the gun, for 
he prefers riding in it to running behind it, and jumps into a dog- 
