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SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 



their dogs, which appear endowed with a sagacity almost human, and almost to know every 

 Individual belonging to their charge. They are sure,, with an inflexible pertinacity, to bricg 

 back a deserter to the flock." 



Mr T. C. Peters, (now of Buffalo, N. Y.,) on his return from Europe, a 

 few years since, brought over a Drover and a Colley. His testimony to 

 their extraordinary value will be found in the American Agriculturist, vol. 

 iii., page 76. 



Fig. 73 



THE COLLEY. 



THE SCOTCH SHEEP-DOG OR COLLEY. The light, active, sagacious Colley 

 admits of no superior scarcely of an .equal where it is his business 

 merely to. manage his flock, and not to defend them from beasts larger 

 than himself. Mr. Hogg says that " a single shepherd and his dog will 

 accomplish more in gathering a flock of sheep from a Highland farm than 

 twenty shepherds could do without dogs. Neither hunger, fatigue, nor 

 the worst treatment will drive him from his master's side, and he will 

 follow him through every hardship without murmur or repining." 



The same well-known writer, in a letter in Blackwood's Magazine, gives 

 a most glowing description of the qualities of his Colley, " Sirrah." One 

 night a flock of lambs, under his care, frightened at something, made 

 what we call in America a regular stampede, scattering over the hills in 

 several different bodies, . " Sirrah, " exclaimed Hogg in despair, " they're 

 a' awa ! " The dog dashed off through the darkness. After spending 

 with his assistants, the whole night in a fruitless search after the fugitives, 

 Mr. Hogg commenced his return to his master's house. Coming to a 

 deep ravine, they found Sirrah in charge, as they at first supposed, of one 

 of the scattered divisions, but what was their joyful surprise to find that 

 not a lamb of the whole flock was missing ! 



Of the stanch devotedness of the Colley, under any and all circuni 



