14 The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



I have endeavoured to somewhat modernize the quaint 

 spelling, and caused one or two alterations in other particu- 

 lars, in order to make this oldest record we have of the 

 working of shepherd's dog more intelligible to the reader 

 than it appears in the reprint from which the extract is 

 copied. 



In the volumes of the Royal Zoological Society there is 

 an engraving of the Hare Indian Dog, evidently the same 

 animal which Youatt illustrates. This is a handsome 

 creature, somewhat resembling a collie in expression, but 

 longer in the head, and with legs and body built more on 

 the lines of an unusually heavily made Eastern greyhound. 

 The Arctic explorer, Dr. Richardson, discovered this dog 

 on the Mackenzie river, and describes it as somewhat 

 like a Pomeranian in appearance, with broad, erect ears, 

 sharp at the tips ; the tail pendant, with a slight curl 

 upwards near the tip. The feet of the Hare Indian dog are 

 thickly clothed with fur, enabling him to run upon the snow 

 with rapidity and ease. It is a dog nearer allied in 

 appearance to our modern collie than any other of the 

 varieties used as guard dogs or beasts of burden in semi- 

 civilized countries. 



The Samoyede sledge dogs a class for which was made 

 at the Kennel Club's show in February, 1889 are white 

 in colour, much resembling a modern collie crossed with 

 a Pomeranian in appearance. They are smaller dogs than 

 those used in the Arctic regions in drawing sledges, although 

 their importer, Mr. F. L. James, said they are ordinarily 

 trained for that purpose. 



Here are a number of animals evidently of varying types 

 and sizes, all used, as it were, for domestic purposes, many 

 of them valuable as guards to the flocks and herds ; others 



