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strain in them. There was a great difference in 

 the way the competitors did their work. Some 

 dogs would take twice as much exercise as others 

 in bringing their sheep down, and would hurry 

 them too much over rough ground, thereby scatter- 

 ing them very often, and perhaps losing one or two. 



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AN OLD ENGLISH SHEEP-DOG. 



or getting them to the pen in such an excited, over- 

 heated state, that they would bolt right and left of 

 it rather than enter it. Other dogs, taking it more 

 quietly after going fast up the hill, having found 

 their sheep, would bring them down steadily and 

 well together, giving them time at difficult places 

 to pick their way amongst the boulders and loose 



