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Lloyd unhesitatingly recognises this fact. " For some 

 time," he remarks, " I have been advocating a certain 

 type, and have been ably assisted in my endeavours by 

 Mr. William G. Weager and others in this country. I 

 believe it to be the true type, not to say anything of the 

 picturesque sort. For the moment I have but one 

 photograph by me of the type I wish to point out as the 

 correct one." 



In the following year, 1890, Mr. Rawdon Lee devotes 

 a chapter of his book The Collie or Sheep Dog to the 

 bob-tail. He quotes at length the late Dr. Edwardes-Ker, 

 of Woodbridge, Suffolk, an authority of thirty years' 

 experience as owner and breeder. Mr. Rawdon Lee 

 accurately describes the correct type, and illustrates it in 

 the person of that sterling good dog Sir Cavendish. 



But he is no optimist, and does not consider the bob- 

 tail, he says, a great success as a show dog. " Personally," 

 he writes, " I do not believe that this variety of dog is 

 destined to obtain any great hold on our human affections. 

 His disposition is at present not quite suitable for a 

 domestic companion, though improved associations might 

 remedy this, and his long shaggy coat (especially the 

 abundance of hair on his legs) must for reasons of cleanli- 

 ness make him unfitted as an inhabitant of the drawing- 

 room, which, popularised as the Club wishes him to be, 

 would be his place." 



In 1894 the Old English Sheep Dog Club held a show 

 on their own account, a fixture which has since become 



