Rough-Coated Collie 347 
particular branch of business to which he is bred. His whole capacity is 
exerted and exhausted on it, and he is of little value in miscellaneous matters, 
whereas a very different cur, bred about the house and accustomed to 
assist in everything, will often put the noble breed to disgrace in these 
paltry services. If one calls out, for instance, that the cows are in the 
corn or the hens in the garden, the house colley needs no other hint, but 
runs and turns them out. . 
“The shepherd’s dog knows not what is astir, and if he is ‘called out 
in a hurry for such work, all that he will do is to break to the hill and rear 
himself up on end to see if no sheep are running away. A'bred sheep dog, 
if coming hungry from the hills and getting into the milk house, would most 
likely think of nothing else than filling his belly with cream. Not so his 
initiated brother; he is bred at home to far higher principles of honour. 
I have known such to lie night and day among from ten to twenty pails 
full of milk and never once break the cream of one of them with the tip 
of his tongue, nor would he suffer rat, cat or any other creature to touch 
it. The latter sort are far more acute at taking up what is said in a family.” 
Hogg then went on to tell of some incidents, and in the first two the 
animal is mentioned merely by the sex name; the third is of a “dog” until 
the final sentence, which is this: “I appeal to every unprejudiced person 
if this was not as like one of the deil’s tricks as an honest colley’s.” ‘The 
fourth “dog” is described as “a female, a jet-black one, with a coat of 
soft hair, but smooth headed and very handsome in her make.” The 
fifth is about a “dog,” though with an editorial heading of “The Ashie- 
steel Collie.’ Six named contributors are then credited with anecdotes, 
and in three the word colley is given. 
In the matter of the colour of these dogs, Hogg had two that were 
“not far from the colour of a fox”; these were father and son, and the grand- 
sire was “almost all black, and had a grim face, striped with dark brown.” 
Black is the only. other colour mentioned, and that in only a few instances. 
One of his red dogs Hogg calls a colley, and as he was a sheep farmer in 
a very large way—one anecdote relating to the straying of seven hundred 
lambs, and another to the purchase of a lot of wild black-faced shéep—it i is 
worth noting that he gives no evidence in any way that the word had the 
slightest connection with, or that there was any such name as, colley for 
sheep. 
The introduction of the rough collie into England, outside of those owned 
