50 The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



doubt his immediate ancestors sprung from Scotland, and 

 his sire is given as Mr. Call's Shep, his dam being Mr. C. 

 Glasby's Bess. Shamrock had more than his fair share of 

 show honours during 1873, and following him from the 

 same kennel came Tricolour, Trefoil, and Hornpipe, the 

 latter possibly the best of the batch the popular chairman 

 of the Kennel Club has shown. The strain of Mr. Shirley's 

 dogs is in the main responsible for almost all the good 

 collies now winning on the bench, for his Trefoil was the 

 sire of Charlemagne, whose successes at the stud have been 

 quite equal to those of any sire that either preceded or has 

 followed him. Charlemagne's dam was Maud, a daughter 

 of Cockie. No doubt, this continuity of type handed 

 down from the Trefoil and Shamrock strains, points to their 

 purity in the first instance, and one may almost wonder 

 what our present collies would have been like had the above 

 strains, and their distinguished ancestor, old Cockie, never 

 had an existence. 



One of this strain (Highlander, by Cockie Hulakin), now 

 the property of Mr. T. Easton, Storrs Farm, Windermere, 

 when a puppy was purchased by Mr. T. Bassett from Mr. 

 Shirley for about 80 a long price in those days, but which 

 a few years later came to be exceeded on many occasions. 

 Highlander is one of the wearing sort. He is as good now 

 at eight years old as when he was a young dog, not one of 

 the narrow-headed contingent a thorough collie in every 

 way, with a protective jacket ; but his ears are not always 

 carried in quite orthodox fashion. In his time he begat 

 a very good dog in Rob Roy Macgregor, from that exceed- 

 ingly well-bred bitch, Hasty, by Carlyle Glen. Rob Roy 

 Macgregor was a handsome tricolour, black, white, and tan, 

 a strong, heavy dog, a useful rather than an ornamental 



