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nicious effect of forcing some foreign concoction to displace the true char- 
acteristic collie, but quite recently has been most gratifying to observe that 
some of our oldest and most experienced judges have awakened to the fact, 
and their adjudications have pointed conclusively to their tenaciously 
keeping to the correct type, to the exclusion of the long, untypical-headed 
brigade. 
“Some difference of opinion exists as to the capabilities of our show 
breed of collies for the work of a sheep dog, but doubt need not intrude on 
this point, for it is a safe affirmation that hundreds of them are engaged in 
that occupation all over the country, and many of them very clever per- 
formers. One in particular, by Edgbaston Royal ex a Tottington Pilot 
bitch, is a winner on the show bench and a wonderfully good worker.” 
We can fully support what Mr. Wheeler says as to the working capa- 
bilities of show collies. When we were breeding from the Nesta strain at 
Philadelphia, Charley Raftery, a well-known stockyards drover, always 
had one or more of our dogs at work, and these included our best prize 
winners. More recently we let Mr. W. S. McClintock, of Galva, IIl., have 
Cavehill Cardinal, a son of Parkhill Pinnacle, which was a winner at the 
Collie Club and New York shows of two years ago. When we wanted him 
East six months later, the manager at Mr. McClintock’s farm told him 
the dog did two men’s work on the place and positively refused to let him 
go, so Mr. McClintock bought him. Then we sent him an old Parkhill 
Squire bitch that did not know anything about sheep, and Cardinal taught 
her in a few weeks nearly all he knew. Finally we left Lady Pink with 
Mr. McClintock when we took her to the Chicago Show, and it is only a 
few days ago that we got a letter from Galva in which Pink is mentioned 
as being in good health and proving herself a first-class stock dog. 
Although collies were shown at the Centennial Show and at those 
held in New York, Boston and elsewhere prior to 1880, they were a very 
ordinary lot of dogs, and with strange descriptions as to ancestry, when they 
had any at all. One shown at New York in 1878 laid claim to the proud 
distinction of having been “imported from Arabia,” and another was 
stated to have come from Queen Victoria’s kennels, Balmoral. They 
had very little pedigree, but some made up for that by considerable weight, 
for weights were given on the entry forms in those days. One dog named 
Rover was given as ninety-five pounds and thirty-eight months of age. 
Another was seventy-four pounds, and from that they ran down to forty 
