IV 



PREFACE 



the Old English Sheep Dog Club ; Sir Humphrey de 

 Trafford, its president ; Mr. J. Thomas and Mr. Freeman 

 Lloyd, two of its original members ; Mr. T. H. Shout, for 

 many years its honorary secretary; Messrs. Tilley, H. 

 Dickson, F. Clayton, Fred Wilmot, F. Travis, F. Birch, 

 J. H. Strick, Dr. MacGill, Mrs. Rivers; and, in no small 

 degree, Mrs. Fare Fosse. 



For the chapter on breeding I am greatly indebted to 

 a work entitled Toogood's Principles of Dog Breeding, 

 published by Messrs. Toogood & Sons, Southampton, 

 which I earnestly commend to the notice of those who 

 wish to study this important subject in a specially 

 practical form. 



One word with regard to the illustrations. Most of 

 them are from photographs, some of which fail entirely to 

 do justice to their subject, and I have included them 

 only because no better portrait was available. I think 

 that even an indifferent picture conveys, to the mind of 

 the beginner, a clearer mental impression than pages of 

 written description. 



A. H. 



