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with blue grizzle for several years, hoping to produce 

 the coveted pigeon-blue, but to his chagrin the 

 puppies came darker with each succeeding genera- 

 tion, and smaller likewise. The thought then struck 

 him of Jockey to get the size back never dreaming 

 about colour. Jockey was then mated to Dame 

 Margery, and she bred two dog puppies at fourteen 

 years old. One of these was of the long-coveted 

 colour he became Sir Caradoc ; whilst the other 

 was nearly white, with blue ears and a tan cheek. 



A great portion of the above was printed in my 

 book on the collie, but since it was published a 

 couple of years ago, few really good specimens of 

 the old English sheep-dog have appeared on the 

 show bench ; nor has the character or style of the 

 dog been altered. The best of these have been 

 Mr. Weager's Wall-eyed Bob and Brave Tory, 

 Messrs. Birch's Invincible, Dr. Ker's Dame Caven- 

 dish, Mr. A. H. Megson's Sir Tatton, Mr. Freegard's 

 Mayor of Newport, and Dr. McGilPs Watchboy (one 

 of the finest dogs I ever saw of the kind, some think 

 him too big). Mr. T. E. Rees, Cardiff; Mr. R. 

 Abbot, Norfolk; Mr. D. P. Thomas, Pontypridd ; 

 Mr. Freeman Lloyd, London ; Mr. J. Thomas, 

 London; Mr. A. C. Jackson, Bath, have also from 

 time to time exhibited excellent specimens of the 

 old English sheep dog. 



