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lie cares for. Of his own accord he places himself close behind 

 the heels of the horses, where 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 dogcart the moment the 

 door is opened. Not so the Dalmatian, who perhaps is wise 

 enough to know that exercise is healthy; but anyhow there is 

 this difference between them. 'A reference to my engraving 

 will show that the Dalmatian differs only very slightly from the 

 pointer, his ears being somewhat smaller, and his colour being 

 the chief point of difference. Formerly, as appears from Youatt's 

 engraving, the spots differed very slightly from the ticks of the 

 pointer, but now by careful breeding they are converted into 

 distinct circular spots,' averaging about an inch in diameter, and 

 the more distinct they are from one another the more highly 

 they are prized. 



Points of the Dalmatian dog : — 



VALUE 



Head, . .10 



Neck, . . 5 



Body, . . . • 5 



Legs and feet, . .10 



Tail, . . 5 



VALCE 



Coat, 5 



Colour, . .10 



Markings, . 40 



Symmetry, . .10 



Total, . 100 



The head may be described in the same terms as that of the 

 pointer, having a similar central furrow and flat upper 'surface, 

 with marked brow. A square nose, cleanly cut under the 

 eyes, accompanies this formation ; but fanciers do not insist on 

 length and width, nor on open nostrils. The dog is, in fact, judged 



