THE COLLIE. 



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specimens have left these shores for other and especially in the northern counties, 



lands. Some of the finest stock of the times Mr. John Bell, of Stanhope, Durham, has 



have been exported to the kennels of such produced many admirable examples, among 



connoisseurs as Mr. Pierpont Morgan and the best being Village Boy and Village Girl. 



Mr. Samuel Untermyer, in the United Many breeders, in order to perpetuate the 



States, while South Africa has claimed Collie type and eliminate the Greyhound 



some excellent examples of the breed. 



character, have used rough-coated dogs in 



Five years ago no one held a better their breeding operations, and often with 

 stock of brood bitches than Mr. James marked success; although the result often 

 Agnew, of Old Hall, Newton Stewart, and brings forward the fault of a too heavy coat, 

 few produced a finer array of 

 prize-winners. Unfortunately 

 for the fancy, however, Mr. 

 Agnew, who is a busy husband- 

 man, has, like many others, 

 given up breeding, and it is 

 to be regretted that, while our 

 old breeders are retiring, their 

 vacant places are not being 

 filled. It is a satisfaction, 

 though, to note that we have 

 still such eminent Collie en- 

 thusiasts as the Rev. Hans 

 Hamilton, Mr. T. Stretch, Mr. 

 Hugo Ainscough, Mr. H. E. 

 Packwood, Mr. W. T. Horry, 

 and Mr. R. Tait, all of whom 

 ire prominent breeders, judges, 

 and exhibitors. 



Neither can the charge o c 

 neg'ect be made against the 

 admirers of the smooth Collie 



which has gained in popularity quite as The smooth Collie is a very clever dog 

 certainly as his more amply attired rela- in most ways, but of little practical use 

 tive. Originally, the smooth Collie was a as a worker among sheep. An odd one 

 dog produced by mating the old-fashioned may indeed be able to go round and 

 b'ack and white with the Greyhound, bring in a flock, but, taking them gener- 

 But the Greyhound type, which was form- ally, they are not workers. They can 

 erly very marked, can scarcely be discerned graduate as professional hunting dogs, having 

 amongst the prize-winners of to-day. Still, speed, and few dogs of any breed can 

 it is not 'nfrequent that a throw-back is capture a rabbit or a hare more scientifically, 

 discovered in a litter producing perhaps a In colour, the merle predominates. Many 

 slate-coloured, a pure white, or a jet black of the blue merle have a merle or wall eye, 

 individual, or that an otherwise perfect and in judging the smooths on exhibition, 

 smooth Collie shou'd have the heavy ears I give preference to a wall-eyed one, pro- 



MR. A. H. MEGSON-S CH. ORMSKIRK EMERALD 



BY HEATHER RALPH AUGHTON BESSIE. 

 BRED BY MR. W. P. BARNES. 



or the eye of a Greyhound. 



vided other points are equal. 



At one time this breed of dog was much The best dog of the breed at the present 



cultivated in Scotland by Mr. George day is without a doubt Eastwood Eminent. 



Paterson, of Dundee, but nowadays the He made his first appearance when very 



breeding of smooths is almost wholly con- young at the Collie Club show held at 



fined to the English side of the Border, Southport in the spring of 1906, and has 



