THE COLLET. 



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their joyful surprise to find that not a la,nib of the -whole 

 flock was missing! 



TI^ COLLET. 



Mr. Peters, in the same paper from -which -we have just 

 quoted, thus ppeaks of the Colley : — " I think the shepherd 

 dog the most valuable, of his species, certainly for the farmer. 

 Our dog Jack, a thorough-bred Scotch Colley, has been worth 

 $100 a year in managing our small. flock of sheep, usually 

 about seven hundred in number. He has saved us more than 

 that in time in running after them. After sheep have been 

 once broken in by, and become used to the dog, it is but 

 little trouble to nianage them; one man and the dog wUl 

 do more than five men in driving, yarding, &c. Let any 

 man once possess a good dog, he will never do without one 

 again, 



" The sagacity of the shepherd's dog is wonderful ; and if 



I had not seen so much myself, I could hardly credit all we 



read about them. It is but a few days since I was reading 



in a Scotch paper a wonderful perforniance of one of these 



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