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lence — giving the collie a conscience and a dog 
religion. With her quick, discerning wit, she is 
also absolutely fearless —when right. Unless 
beaten into cowardice, a collie will never hesitate 
to defend home and friends, or whatever is placed 
in her charge. The last thing at night is to make 
sure that Lilah is indoors, where, with full range of 
the house, she constitutes the best possible burglar- 
alarm and defense. Every motion of the beautiful 
creature is a word. ‘Those who claim to own ani- 
mals should at least understand animal speech, 
most of which is not yet differentiated from the tail 
to the tongue. 
In Brussels the dog does a very large part of 
manual labor, together with the women. A recent 
writer says: “ We saw a young girl of eighteen har- 
nessed to a cart between two great dogs. They all 
seemed happy, and the woman was apparently a 
free agent, for when together they had pulled the 
cart into a favorable position, she got out of the 
harness, bade the dogs lie down, and began to cry 
her vegetables. We also saw men harnessed to 
carts with dogs, but there were more women. 
We saw dogs harnessed between shafts like horses, 
others in traces underneath the carts, and others 
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