CHAPTER VII. 



THE COLLIE CLUBS THEIR STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE 



SCALES AND POINTS THE SCOTTISH COLLIE CLUB 

 - INTELLIGENCE OF THE COLLIE SOME ANECDOTES 



TRAINED TO PERFORM SHEEP WORRYING. 



IRE COLLIE CLUB was established in 1881 ; 

 strangely, its head-quarters have always been in 

 London, and, until this year, a large majority 

 of its Committee have resided in the South of England. 

 Personally, I am not greatly in favour of these specialist 

 dog clubs, for they too often drift into a certain groove, 

 selecting their own judges from their own members, who, 

 turn and turn about, come as it were to judge each other's 

 dogs, as well as those of the general public. Perhaps, 

 on the whole, the Collie Club has been far less faulty in this 

 particular than other similar bodies, for its management has 

 teen satisfactorily conducted by a body of men whose 

 conduct is above suspicion. Thus, the Club has main- 

 tained its success, now numbers some eighty members, and 

 possesses a nice little balance at its banker's. Whether 

 this Club has improved in the collie in the best manner 

 possible may be disputed by some, but there is no getting 



