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. Jolm Bell, of Stanhope, Durham, has 

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



the best being \'illage Boy and ^'iUage Girl. 

 Many breeders, in order to perpetuate the 

 Collie tj^je and eliminate the Grej^hovmd 

 character, have used rough-coated dogs in 

 their breeding operations, and often with 

 marked success, although the result often 

 brings fonvard the fault of a too hea\-\' coat. 



connoisseurs as Mr. Pierpont Morgan and 

 Mr. Samuel Untermyer, in the United 

 States, while South Africa has claimed 

 some excellent examples of the breed. 



Five \-ears ago no one held a better 

 stock of brood bitches than Mr. James 

 Agnew, of Old Hall, Newton Stewart, and 

 few produced a finer array of 

 prize-winners. Unfortunately 

 for the fancy, however, Mr. 

 Agnew, who is a busy husband- 

 man, has, hke man}' 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. K. 

 Packwood, Mr. W. T. Horry, 

 and Mr. R. Tait, all of whom 

 ire prominent breeders, judges, 

 and exhibitors. 



Neither can the charge o- 

 neg'ect be made against the 

 admirers of the smooth Collie 



which has gained in popularitv quite a.s The smooth Collie is a very clever dog 

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

 five. 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 

 back and white with the Greyhound, bring in a flock, but, taking them gener- 

 But the Greyhound tyf)e, 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 Utter 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 e\'e, 

 indi\-idual. or that an othenvise perfect and in judging the smooths on exhibition, 

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

 or the eye of a Grevhound. \-ided other points are equal. 



-\t one time this breed of dog was much The best dog of the breed at the present 



MR. A. H. MEGSONS CH. ORMSKIRK EMERALD 



BY HEATHER RALPH AUGHTON BESSIE. 



BRED BY MR. W. P. BARNES. 



cultivated in Scotland by Mr. George 

 Paterson, of Dundee, but nowadays the 

 breeding of smooths is almost whollv con- 

 fined to the English side of the Border, 



day is without a doubt Eastwood Eminent. 

 He made his first appearance when very 

 young at the CoUie Club show held at 

 Southport in the spring of igo6, and has 



