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gave to the collie. We find it in Bewick’s “Shepherd’s Dog;” in Howitt’s 
beautiful etching in Bingley’s Quadrupeds, which was entitled ‘“‘The 
Shepherd’s Dog,” with the sub title of “Curr”; in “ Brown’s Anecdotes,” 
published in 1829; and in an illustration of the collies, both rough and 
smooth, of 1843, given in “The Twentieth Century Dog.” All show the 
same upward curl and twist to one side of the end of the tail. Nowadays it 
is described as a wry tail, and is as much condemned as if it was the twisted 
tail of some cockerel at a poultry show. We have seen it in a good many 
dogs, and, all standards to the contrary, we like it and look upon it as thor- 
oughly characteristic. 
Quite a number of writers on the collie have quoted from Caius’s 
description of the “shepherd’s dogge”’ in treating of the rough collie, but 
he did not write of that dog at all, but the light mastiff or bandog, which 
was used as a sheep dog. If we recognise that mastiff meant simply mongrel 
or common dog, and that it included pretty nearly everything outside of 
hounds, spaniels and terriers, and not a specified breed such as we know 
mastiffs, we will the more readily understand what produced the English 
sheep dog, and that, as we have already said, he is not a collie proper, 
though now known in England as the smooth collie. As Caius wrote only 
of the smooth dog, he will be quoted in the chapter on that breed. 
We have already mentioned that it was probable the term collie was 
confined to parts of Scotland, and that it found headway down the east 
coast as far as Northumberland, where Bewick gives it as applied to both 
rough and smooth, and also gives the first representation of the rough dog 
as early as 1790. This was along the main highway from Edinburgh to 
England. That it was by no means universal even as late as 1825 may 
be proved by reference to Captain Brown’s “Anecdotes,” 1829, in which 
there are fifty pages of quoted stories about these dogs. We have gone 
through these anecdotes and found that in the first twenty pages the collie 
is either shepherd dog or merely dog. The first use of “colley” is in a 
quotation from Blackwood’s Magazine, from a communication by Hogg, 
“The Ettrick Shepherd.” As it is a very good illustration of the several 
names applied to the rough dog at that time in his section of South Scotland, 
we will quote two full paragraphs: 
“Tt is a curious fact in the history of these animals that the most useless 
of the breed have often the greatest degree of sagacity in trifling and useless 
matters. An exceedingly good sheep dog attends to nothing else but that 
