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The master of the dogs was Irish and young, with eyes the color of a six-o'clock sky on a sunny day, and he greeted Johnny with a white-toothed smile that would have melted honey. "I locked Beauty up, sir," he said with a touch of his cap, referring to the gentle collie that had poked its nose confidingly into Johnny's hand at every visit.

The hammered brass era gave way to the opposite extreme of painted velvet. They say it is a difficult art; and it may well be. Mrs. Budlong's first landscape might as well have been painted on the side of her Scotch collie. Her most finished roses had something of the look of shaggy tarantulas that had fallen into a paint pot and emerged in a towering rage.

He groped and felt in the lower darkness, then because he had never been taught to pray Sandy Morley bent his head over the wet and shaggy body of Bob, the collie, and laughed and sobbed from sheer gratitude and joy! Stealthily the faithful creature had followed his friend. Life had taught him, even in his puppy days, to curb his inclinations.

The children, who were half asleep at this time of the night, woke up with sudden interest at sight of the beautiful collie; and at the same moment Little Piper explained to the gentleman who was in charge of these young ones that the dog had to be tied up somewhere, and that a small adjoining room would answer that purpose. The proposal was most courteously entertained.

The boys felt cold and tired and crawled back into the tent to finish their night's rest. Soon the collie came nosing at the opening. "Come here!" said Giant in a low voice, and instantly the dog nestled down at his side, and there he remained until daylight. "We can take him in some of our pictures," said the small youth. "He'll add to the picturesqueness."

A buzzard circled far above the cliffs. The air hummed with invisible bees in the rank wild clover. He peered past the next bend. A short distance below stood a riderless horse. The bridle was trailing. For an instant Collie did not realize the significance of the animal waiting patiently for its rider.

"It couldn't be anything but a wild animal." "Wait," cried Snap. He raised his voice. "Who is there?" he called out. "Answer, or we'll shoot!" For reply there came a sound that thoroughly astonished the boys. It was the bark of a dog, low and uncertain. Then there stepped into view a collie, wagging his tail doubtfully. "A dog!" cried Giant.

Two things he became aware of at once: one, that Smoke, while excited, was pleasurably excited; the other, that the collie was no longer visible upon the mat at his feet. He had crept away to the corner of the wall farthest from the window, and lay watching the room with wide-open eyes, in which lurked plainly something of alarm. Something in the dog's behaviour instantly struck Dr.

This was a 'parlour game' at the Rectory, as I discovered later, and one in which my aunt always came off the winner. My uncle now addressed himself to me. 'You must know, Charles, said he, 'that the northern part of the Castle Park, between the burn and the ring wall, is supposed to be haunted by the wraiths of a shepherd and his collie dog.

"It was too bad you run over their dog, or so many of their dogs; but then you done what you could, sending 'em another dog as big as all you killed. A collie is right smart. I hope this one will keep on the sidewalk and not get under the wheels. That Boston dog of yours always has me guessing."