The Collie or Sheep Dog. 109 



In Scotland, many of the oldest natives consider 

 that the deerhound, the collie, and the Scottish 

 terrier, were one and the same animal originally ; 

 and in proof thereof point to the strange resem- 

 blance there is in the shape of head, expression, 

 and ears of the three varieties. However, there is 

 considerable difference in the colour and texture of 

 the coats of the collie and the hard-haired terrier 

 and the deerhound, the resemblance being between 

 the two latter. Still, I have repeatedly seen types 

 of the sheep dog with hard and wiry coats like that 

 possessed by the deerhound, and something like 

 two and twenty years ago, Mr. John Rigg, who then 

 kept the Windermere Hotel, Westmoreland, had an 

 extraordinarily good specimen, one good enough to 

 win prizes at the ordinary shows at that time. 

 Later, I have seen two or three dogs of similar 

 type, though not so good-looking, competing suc- 

 cessfully at sundry of the north country field trials. 



Of the collie at the early part of this century, the 

 Rev. W. Bingley, in his " British Quadrupeds," gives 

 us an animal almost identical in type with what we 

 have now. The illustration in the " Sportsman's 

 Cabinet " is an excellent specimen of the old English 

 sheep dog, rough and hard in coat, tail '' semi- 

 bob," or maybe it has been cut, and with light- 

 coloured eyes, that the artist, Reinagle, may have 



