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Large docile dogs also were expected to earn their keep by carrying packages or pulling wagons for farmers and merchants. A "coarse hound" was what Caius called such dogs as the "Tyncker's Curre [Tinker's Cur]," trained to "beare bigge budgettes [satchels] fraught with tooles...mettall meete to mend kettles, porrige pottes, skellets...and other such like trumpery for requisite for their loytering trade." In later centuries, these likely progenitors of modern Newfoundlands, Appenzell Mountain Dogs, and Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs were loosely lumped together in a class simply identified as "cart dog," also known in French-speaking regions as the "Matin."
-- The Lost History of the Canine Race, Mary Elizabeth Thurston
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