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a “ruff,” which is more marked in him than in any other breed of 
dogs with which I am acquainted. 
Of late years the collie has descended into the South, and fairly 
taken us by storm, being used, however, chiefly as a companion- 
able dog, though on many farms his proper vocation is allotted to 
him. An attempt has been made to meet the fashionable demand 
for a pretty colour by crossing with him the black-and-tan setter, and 
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The Collie (Youatt). 
this cross has taken the fancy of those who require an ornamental 
rather than a useful dog, but it has completely destroyed the 
main features of the breed for which he was prized. Instead of a 
thick woolly coat with a very close undergrowth, it has given the 
shining but open hair of the setter, letting in the wet, so that the 
dog would be utterly useless on a Scotch hill. Instead of the bare 
legs of the true breed, which, even if wet; do not hold water in any 
quantity, the legs are feathered like a setter’s, and would speedily 
