68 The Collie or Sheep Dog. 



handsomest specimens to appear thereon, the present 

 popularity would not have been attained, and the long 

 prices given for the best specimens must have been more 

 imaginative than real. 



Following the custom that had been inaugurated in the 

 case of pointers and setters, our American cousins were 

 not slow to perceive the value of the show bench collie, and 

 many admirers of the variety were found across the Atlantic, 

 who moreover had the wherewithal to please their fancy. 

 This they did by making judicious purchases, and from 

 time to time many well-bred collie dogs made the 

 voyage, and are now located in different parts of the 

 United States and Canada. Indeed, at the last exhibition 

 of the Westminster Kennel Club, held in New York, in 

 February, 1890, one hundred and seventeen collies were 

 entered, a number well up to the average found at an 

 ordinary show in this country. 



The earliest importations of note were Marcus, Robin 

 Adair, and Zulu Princess ; but the latest of all were 

 Christopher, already named, and that grand dog The 

 Squire, which Mr. Mitchell Harrison purchased from Messrs. 

 Charles for a good stiff figure. These dogs, properly mated, 

 should have great influence in improving the breed in 

 America. Of other notabilities that have left our shores 

 during the past half dozen years may be named Dublin Scott, 

 Maney Trefoil, Flurry II., and Scotilla, the spirited owner of 

 the latter, sending him over to compete at the Kennel Club 

 summer show in London in 1889, which he did, unfortu- 

 nately, with an amount of success not commensurate with 

 the expense entailed by so bold an undertaking. Judg- 

 ing from the reports in the American papers, the following 

 gentlemen are the most prominent admirers of the collie 



