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lence — giving the collie a conscience and a dog 

 religion. With her quick, discerning wit, she is 

 also absolutely fearless — when right. Unless 

 beaten into cowardice, a collie will never hesitate 

 to defend home and friends, or whatever is placed 

 in her charge. The last thing at night is to make 

 sure that Lilah is indoors, where, with full range of 

 the house, she constitutes the best possible burglar- 

 alarm and defense. Every motion of the beautiful 

 creature is a word. Those who claim to own ani- 

 mals should at least understand animal speech, 

 most of which is not yet differentiated from the tail 

 to the tongue. 



In Brussels the dog does a very large part of 

 manual labor, together with the women. A recent 

 writer says: " We saw a young girl of eighteen har- 

 nessed to a cart between two great dogs. They all 

 seemed happy, and the woman was apparently a 

 free agent, for when together they had pulled the 

 cart into a favorable position, she got out of the 

 harness, bade the dogs lie down, and began to cry 

 her vegetables. We also saw men harnessed to 

 carts with dogs, but there were more women. 

 We saw dogs harnessed between shafts like horses, 

 others in traces underneath the carts, and others 



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