. CHAPTER XXXIX The Great Dane F^OTJN SPITE of various efforts to give a German name to the Great Dane, both in England and in this country they have met with but little success, and although it is beyond question that we owe the dog of the show-ring to its having been bred for many years in Germany in a systematic manner, he still retains, outside of that country, his original name of Great Dane. Original is perhaps not the correct word to use in this connection, and if we say previous name it is historically more in keeping with the facts. Why it should ever have been entitled the Danish dog
. CHAPTER XXXIX The Great Dane F^OTJN SPITE of various efforts to give a German name to the Great Dane, both in England and in this country they have met with but little success, and although it is beyond question that we owe the dog of the show-ring to its having been bred for many years in Germany in a systematic manner, he still retains, outside of that country, his original name of Great Dane. Original is perhaps not the correct word to use in this connection, and if we say previous name it is historically more in keeping with the facts. Why it should ever have been entitled the Danish dog we have failed to find any reason. Buffon names it the grand Danoisy the "grand" being prefixed to distinguish it from a small terrier-like dog to which was given the name of petit Danois. It has been generally accepted and quoted that the Dalmatian had the name of the lesser Dane, and if we mistake not Buffon is the quoted authority, but that is not correct. Buffon's Dalmatian he called the hraque de Bengale, and the mistake in attributing to him the mixing of the Dalmatian with the lesser Dane is probably due to what he said with regard to their colour. Buffon as well as M. Daubenton, who wrote the fuller description of the dogs in the "Histoire Naturelle"—Buffon only writing the general introduction—both distinctly state that the name of petit Danois for this small dog was incor- rect, but it had become so established that they felt compelled to follow the erroneous nomenclature. Buffon in his introduction says it had no other connection with the grand Danois than having the short coat of that dog. M. Daubenton gives the colours of the lesser Dane as follows: "The most of them are black and white spotted, and when they are mottled with black on a white ground we give them the name of ; This reference to the black markings may have been the reason for assuming, from some quotation probably without context, that it was the Dalmatian
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