1 84 RECREATIONS OF A NATURALIST 



stones that lay scattered about, seldom barking, and 

 altogether behaving in the most intelligent way. 

 In this sort of dog was found the winner of the 

 first-class stakes. Fan, the property of David 

 Rowlands, of Talysarn. A small, light-made 

 collie,^ compared with many of the others, she 

 proved herself as fast as most of them in going up 

 for her sheep, and very superior in her style of 

 bringing them down. Collecting them quietly, and 

 starting them in the right direction, she did not 

 over-drive them, and so long as they were going 

 right, she stood still and watched them. It was 

 only when they got too much to the right or left 

 that she headed and turned them, allowing them 

 then to proceed quietly as before, finally bringing 

 them up to the pen so gently, and in such an 

 unflurried condition that they could not but walk 

 in quietly. 



1 The term "collie" affords an example of the curious changes 

 which sometimes take place in the meaning of words. Originally 

 applied to the Scottish black-faced and black-legged sheep, from 

 the A.S. col, black, the shepherd's dog was naturally known as 

 the " collie dog," and by wrongly abbreviating this to " collie," 

 the name gradually got transferred from the sheep to the dog. 



