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carried curled over the back, and a hard 
deep coat, which lengthens to a ruff about 
the neck. In colour the Iceland Dog is 
brownish or greyish, sometimes dirty white 
or dirty yellow. A frequent distribution of 
colour is black about the head and along 
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the back, broken by patches of white, with 
the under side of the body, the feet, and 
tip of the tail dirty white. Mrs. McLaren 
Morrison has possessed specimens of the 
breed. 
In the variety of the northern dog known 
as the Wolfspitz we doubtless have the origi- 
nal type of Pomeranian, through which the 
derivation of the breed is traceable step by 
step through the dogs of Lapland, Siberia, 
Norway, and Sweden, to the wolf’s fitst 
cousin, the Eskimo dog, growing at each 
step to resemble the wolf more and more. 
The Wolfspitz is the largest of the Pomer- 
anians. He derives his name from his 
wolfish colouring. On account of being 
much used in Germany by carriers to guard 
their vans, he is also called the Fuhrmanns- 
spitz or carrier’s Pomeranian; the smaller 
black or white Poms being called simply 
Spitz, black or white, the dwarf variety 
now so popular being the Zwergspitz. 
Mr. Charles Kammerer, an English speak- 
ing cynologist residing in Austria, not un- 
known to several of our more cosmopolitan 
judges, has made a speciality of this breed, 
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and has bred them to the great size of 
22 inches at the shoulder—the height of 
a fair-sized Eskimo dog—and weighing as 
much as 60 lb. or more. The Wolfspitz has 
on several occasions been exhibited of late 
years at English shows. Possibly the first 
was a very handsome specimen called Kees, 
shown by a Miss Beverley at one of the 
Ladies’ Kennel Association shows as a 
Meeshond, this being simply the Dutch 
name for the breed, which is common in 
Holland. It was entered in the foreign 
dog class and promptly objected to by 
Mr. H. C. Brooke, on the ground that its 
proper place was in the class for Pomer- 
anians over 8 lb. Mr. G. R. Krehl and a 
number of Continental cynologists sup- 
ported Mr. Brooke’s contention, and the 
dog was disqualified ; but later on won in 
his proper place at other shows. Since 
then several other specimens have been 
seen, not of the size of Mr. Kammerer’s 
giant strain, but of the average dimensions, 
about 14 inches high and 35 lb. in weight. 
Turning again to the south of Europe one 
may include a reference to the hound known 
in Spain and Portugal as the Podengo. 
This dog, with its racy limbs, its pointed 
muzzle, erect ears, and keen, obliquely set 
eyes, reminds one at once of its probable 
ancestor, the jackal, and the resemblance is. 
rendered yet more close when the coat 
happens to be red. In build it is of Grey- 
hound type, and it is frequently used for 
coursing rabbit and hare; but in the 
Peninsula, and more especially in La Mancha, 
Andalusia and Estramadura, it is slipped to 
the stag and the bear, and is also employed 
as a gun-dog. It has a reputation for keen 
scent, but in this respect it cannot, of course, 
be compared with the Setter or the Pointer. 
As a companion dog it is not desirable, as it 
is of vicious temper and extremely surly. 
The average height is 27 inches. There 
is a hound very similar to the Podengo 
peculiar to the Balearic Isles, although one 
may occasionally see it in the neighbour- 
hood of Valencia, Barcelona and other 
places along the eastern shores of Spain, 
where it is known as the Charnigue. A 
lean, ungainly dog, with a long muzzle, 
