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Dr. McGill, Littleborough, near Manchester, has, during 

 the past few years, been as ardent an admirer of the collie 

 as he has proved a successful exhibitor. His favourites, 

 bearing the now well known prefix of " Hollin," are usually 

 particularly handsomely marked, and excellent in other 

 particulars. Hollin Bitters and Pansey, successful at the 

 late Collie Club's Show and at subsequent exhibitions, are 

 possibly equal to anything that has appeared from the 

 Hollin House kennels. 



The Messrs. Birch, of Seaforth ; Mr. Hurst, Knutsford ; 

 Mr. Wake-Walker, Watford; Lady Innes-Ker, Mr. F. 

 Hurst, Mr. G. Hall, Mr. H. Ainscough, Mr. A. N. 

 Radcliffe, Mr. M. H. Lowe, Mr. H. J. Clements, and the 

 Rev. C. Kent, in addition to the gentlemen already named, 

 have possessed some excellent strains, specimens of which 

 have time after time been seen to advantage in the rings of 

 many of our shows. 



But their names are almost in legions who have owned 

 prize-winning sheep dogs, for is not their variety, after the 

 fox terrier, the most popular of the canine race ? Many 

 good dogs may have been omitted ; possibly, some, in the 

 eyes of their owners, even better than one half of those 

 whose names appear in these pages, but the endeavour has 

 been to select only those which I myself have seen and of 

 whose merits I was thus able to judge. This chapter has been 

 altogether devoted to those rough-coated shepherds' dogs 

 that have made names for themselves, and gained notoriety 

 for their owners, on the show bench. Further on something 

 will be forthcoming as to the working capabilities of the 

 collie. One may rail at the modern type and the show 

 bench as one likes, still there is no avoiding the fact that, 

 had it not been for the latter, and the selection of the 



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