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a pat on the head; and even when kept in the country, 

 where he seldom sees anyone but his master, his bark on 

 the appearance of a stranger may be oftener taken as a 

 call of welcome than as the cry of alarm. The shepherd's 

 dog when properly trained is as good in his work now as at 

 any previous period of his history ; better, perhaps. It must 

 not, however, be taken for granted that the collie, as he is 

 now seen obtaining valuable prizes at our canine exhibitions, 

 is the exact counterpart of the dog met with on the sheep- 

 farms, and without whom the shepherd could not do his 

 work. There are distinctions between the two. The 

 former has been kept for his beauty alone, and most likely 

 for generations his ancestors had never known what it was 

 to assist the farmer in his duties. So his descendants 

 gradually drop out of the work, and when they come to be 

 trained are not nearly so docile and intelligent as they 

 would have been had all their progenitors been good 

 workers. 



A young pointer or setter will often intuitively stand 

 game on the very first occasion he may scent it, a faculty 

 which has been handed down to him from generation to 

 generation from dogs which have always been trained to do 

 the same thing. A retriever puppy for a similar reason is 

 never happy unless he is carrying something in his mouth. 

 Neglect to keep up this seeming intuition in the pointer, 

 setter, or retriever, and see what the result will be in the 

 course of a few generations ? The puppy will no longer 

 point or draw upon game naturally, and his education will 

 be ten times as difficult to consummate as it would have 

 been had the old conditions been continued. 



Thus it is with the modern exhibition-bred collie as 

 compared with the one that has been kept and reared for 



