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CHAPTEE V. 



PASTORAL DOGS AND THOSE USED FOE DEATJGHT. 



i. The English Sheep-Dog— 2. The Collie: (a) Rough; (b) Smooth— 

 3. The Drover's Dog— 4. The German Sheep-Dog — 5. The Pomeranian : 

 (a) The Large Wolf-Dog ; (b) The Small or Spitz— 6. The Chinese 

 Sheep-Dog — 7. The Newfoundland, and Labrador Dog : (a) The True 

 Newfoundland ; (b) The Landseer Newfoundland ; (c) The St. John's or 

 Labrador— 8. The Esquimaux Dog — 9. Iceland and Lapland Dogs. 



I.— THE ENGLISH SHEEP-DOG. 



I cannot do better than transcribe the description of this dog 

 which I wrote in 1859, as follows : — 



The English sheep-dog is tolerably represented in the annexed 

 engraving, but there are so many different breeds that it is diffi- 

 cult to describe him very exactly. He has a sharp muzzle, 

 medium-sized head, with small and piercing eyes ; a well-shaped 

 body, formed after the model of a strong low greyhound, but clothed 

 in thick and somewhat woolly hair, which is particularly strong 

 about the neck and bosom. The tail is naturally long and bushy, 

 but, as it has almost invariably been cut off until of late years, its 

 variations can hardly be known. Under the old excise laws, the 

 shepherd's dog was only exempt from tax when without a tail, 

 and for this reason it was always removed ; from which at last it 

 happened that many puppies of the breed were born without any 

 tails, and to this day some particular breeds are tailless. In 



