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treated all varieties of the sheep dog as pretty much the 

 same, it being quite the exception to make even a little 

 difference between those of the highlands and those of 

 the lowlands. 



Approaching our own time, Youatt (1845) gives us a 

 drawing of an English sheep dog, which is an ordinary grey 

 and white or black and white Scotch collie without a tail 

 on, or with but a meagre stump of the caudal appendage. 

 This author tells us little or nothing about him beyond 

 suggesting that, in the more enclosed districts, where 

 strength is often needed to turn an obstinate sheep, the 

 English sheep dog is crossed with some larger dog, as 

 the rough terrier, sometimes the pointer, or now and then 

 with the bull dog, and thus, he says, are obtained the larger 

 sheep dog or drovers' dogs. One wonders if the scientific 

 Youatt ever saw even a single instance of any of these crosses, 

 and where he would have obtained his rough terrier stronger 

 than an ordinary sheep dog? Still, such statements are 

 handed down as history, to be believed no doubt by many 

 persons who have no knowledge to the contrary. The bob- 

 tailed sheep dog was never manufactured in that way. 



Richardson (1850), who evidently knows more of this 

 dog than the more popular author Youatt, alludes to 

 " the shepherd's dog or collie, and the shepherd's dog 

 of England;" and says the latter is "the larger, the 

 stronger, and has much the appearance of a cross with the 

 great rough water dog. It is coarser in the muzzle and 

 coat, and is destitute of tail. In sagacity, I believe it to be 

 fully equal to its more northern relative. About London, 

 and in many parts of England, the drover's dog, which is 

 chiefly used in driving sheep, is without any tail. This, 

 however, is not the natural form of the animal, for the tail is 



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