THE DOG. 



THE SHEEP-DOQ. 



STOEIBS OP INTELLIGBNT DOGS, 



There is such a host of them that the diffictilty is where to 

 begin. There are celebrated water-dogs, which have saved 

 folks from death by drowning ; and celebrated fire-dogs, that 

 have rescued human beings from that most terrible of all 

 deaths, burning. There are wide-awake men's dogs, trained 

 to poach and to commit petty larceny in a way worthy of the 

 treadmill ; and blind men's dogs, trained to pilot their helpless 

 masters through the most crowded thoroughfares, to carry 

 their contribution-box, and to appeal imploringly with their 

 eyes for a copper. There are dogs who funnily gham combat 

 with Mr. Punch ; and real warrior dogs, who have been through 

 all the perils of the battle-field, and returned home scarred 

 invalids. There are — 



But this is not a catalogue, says the reader; the list you 

 have already famished is quite long enough : we already know 

 there a/re such dogs as you have mentioned; what about 

 themF 



First of all about a sheep-dog ; and that the reader may 

 have not the least hesitation in accepting it as strictly true, I 

 may mention that Mr. Hogg — the Bttrick Shepherd — was the 

 dog's master. He gave a drover a g^uinea for the animal, be- 

 cause, " notwithstanding his dejected and forlorn appearance, 

 I thought I discovered a sort of sullen intelligence in his coun- 

 tenance." 



