166 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
day being in favour of a poodle with a black satin jacket trimmed. 
with Astrakan. ; 
In Russia the poodle is chiefly used as a house-dog, and is 
taught many tricks there, for the amusement of the families 
during the long winters, when no one goes out of doors without 
necessity. In France and Germany there are a great many slight 
variations in size, colour, and general appearance, but all exhibit 
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Lady Di Huddleston’s “ Mossoo.”’ 
a neatly rounded symmetrical body, covered naturally with short 
crisp curls, in some cases woolly and in others silky, and exhibit- 
ing a decided wig of crisp curls over the eyes. 
Dr. Fitzinger, the chief German authority on the dog, enume- 
rates six distinct varieties, but I shall not follow him through the 
whole. His chief points of difference seem, however, to reside in 
the size, beyond which he is rather indefinite. Both for sporting 
