SHEEP-DOG TRIALS 



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MOST people who are connected with agri- 

 cultural life know how clever and sagacious 

 collie and sheep-dogs are ; few, however, can 

 imagine, unless they have actually witnessed 

 trials, to what a pitch of perfection these 

 four-footed coadjutors of the shepherd can 

 be brought by careful training. Their 

 intelligence is simply marvellous ; they seem 

 to exercise a reasoning power, and to know 

 by intuition exactly what to do, and how to 

 expeditiously do it in any difficulty that may 

 suddenly arise, even without the assistance 

 of their masters. 



Again, their instant and implicit obedience 

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