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nicious effect of forcing some foreign concoction to displace the true char- 

 acteristic colHe, but quite recently has been most gratifying to observe that 

 some of our oldest and most experienced judges have awakened to the fact, 

 and their adjudications have pointed conclusively to their tenaciously 

 keeping to the correct type, to the exclusion of the long, untypical-headed 

 brigade. 



"Some difference of opinion exists as to the capabilities of our show 

 breed of collies for the work of a sheep dog, but doubt need not intrude on 

 this point, for it is a safe affirmation that hundreds of them are engaged in 

 that occupation all over the country, and many of them very clever per- 

 formers. One in particular, by Edgbaston Royal ex a Tottington Pilot 

 bitch, is a winner on the show bench and a wonderfully good worker." 



We can fully support what Mr. Wheeler says as to the working capa- 

 bilities of show collies. When we were breeding from the Nesta strain at 

 Philadelphia, Charley Raftery, a well-known stockyards drover, always 

 had one or more of our dogs at work, and these included our best prize 

 winners. More recently we let Mr. W. S. McClintock, of Galva, 111., have 

 Cavehill Cardinal, a son of Parkhill Pinnacle, which was a winner at the 

 Collie Club and New York shows of two years ago. When we wanted him 

 East six months later, the manager at Mr. McClintock's farm told him 

 the dog did two men's work on the place and positively refused to let him 

 go, so Mr. McClintock bought him. Then we sent him an old Parkhill 

 Squire bitch that did not know anything about sheep, and Cardinal taught 

 her in a few weeks nearly all he knew. Finally we left Lady Pink with 

 Mr. McClintock when we took her to the Chicago Show, and it is only a 

 few days ago that we got a letter from Galva in which Pink is mentioned 

 as being in good health and proving herself a first-class stock dog. 



Although collies were shown at the Centennial Show and at those 

 held in New York, Boston and elsewhere prior to 1880, they were a very 

 ordinary lot of dogs, and with strange descriptions as to ancestry, when they 

 had any at all. One shown at New York in 1878 laid claim to the proud 

 distinction of having been "imported from Arabia," and another was 

 stated to have come from Queen Victoria's kennels, Balmoral. They 

 had very little pedigree, but some made up for that by considerable weight, 

 for weights were given on the entry forms in those days. One dog named 

 Rover was given as ninety-five pounds and thirty-eight months of age. 

 Another was seventy-four pounds, and from that they ran down to forty 



