The Collie or Sheep Dog. 115 



at the Scottish show there were 153 sheep dogs 

 benched, and in 1893 the entries were 287, and the 

 competitors 121. 



Ten years after the institution of a class for them 

 at Birmingham, there were but fifteen entries, and 

 in 1870, the second prize was awarded to a dog, 

 Cockie, which the present generation will recollect 

 as perhaps as good an all-round specimen of his 

 race as was ever led into a show ring. He then 

 belonged to Mr. W. White, Sherwood Rise, Notting- 

 ham, and I think with very slight exceptions, no 

 modern collie of the prevailing type with any 

 pretensions to excellence, is without some of the 

 Cockie blood in his veins. He was not only a show 

 dog but a worker, and that he looked both is 

 manifest from the fact that he won prizes under 

 shepherd judges and under the ordinary " circuit " 

 judges alike. 



He took the cup at Carlisle in 1870, in a very 

 strong class, farmer judges making the awards, and 

 they all, as well as the spectators, said he was the 

 best shepherd's dog they ever saw. Twelve years 

 later, after some ups and downs, Cockie died peace- 

 fully at Great Bars, Birmingham, where he was well 

 cared for by Mr. J. Bissel, who, a short time before, 

 had purchased the poor dog for 10, this after he 

 had been sold at a local mart for 3 only ! 



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