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real pleasure of seeing the dogs " work," and do credit, 

 or otherwise, to care and attention devoted to their 

 training), obtain employment, and I have found them, 

 as a rule, a highly respectable class of men, often gen- 

 erations of the same family being in the service of one 

 family, and most jealous of the reputation of the 

 master, his dogs, and covers. 



To take some of our other utility dogs, those of my 

 readers who have visited the cattle market of any large 

 sized town or city, cannot have failed to notice the dogs 

 which attend the professional drovers there, many of 

 them rough looking enough, in all conscience, but, as 

 for intelligence, why, they are brimful of it, and willing 

 and able to do wonders with the cattle and sheep in the 

 open, or on the road afterwards, understanding the few 

 words said to them, and eager to carry out their orders, 

 and although sometimes erring through excess of zeal, 

 the reverse is seldom the case, and I am pleased to say 

 (as I have known and conversed with many of the men 

 who are acquainted with my love for animals, and 

 know what numbers I have bred and owned), that the 

 greater part of them value their dogs, and appreciate 

 their services, so much so, that what might be con- 

 sidered really big offers, have frequently been refused 

 by them. One of them said to me, " What good, sir, 

 for me to take a ten pound note for ' Bess/ I couldn't do 

 nothing without she, and 'twould take me a doose of a 

 time to make another larn to do like she can, with the 

 beasts, and that, let alone her being such a ' pal/ and 

 my missus, she do think a deal of Bess, to be sure sir." 



I have no doubt, that a great many varieties of dog 



