Note to the Reader 



he was first taken to. Old Turkeytrack is where 

 he cannot be consulted to settle it. 



Wully is, in a sense, a compound of two dogs ; 

 both were mongrels, of some collie blood, and 

 were raised as sheep-dogs. The first part of 

 Wully is given as it happened, after that it was 

 known only that he became a savage, treacher- 

 ous sheep-killer. The details of the second part 

 belong really to another, a similar yaller dog, 

 who long lived the double life — a faithful sheep- 

 dog by day, and a bloodthirsty, treacherous 

 monster by night. Such things are less rare 

 than is supposed, and since writing these stories 

 I have heard of another double-lived sheep-dog 

 mat added to its night amusements the crown- 

 ing barbarity of murdering the smaller dogs of 

 the neighborhood. He had killed twenty, and 

 hidden them in a sand-pit, when discovered by 

 his master. He died just as Wully did. 



All told, I now have information of six of 

 these Jekyl-Hyde dogs. In each case it hap- 

 pened to be a collie. 



Redruff really lived in the Don Valley north 



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