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The majority of the dogs thus collected together from many miles of the Downs are either collies, or show a very decided trace of the collie. One old shepherd, an ancient of the ancients, grey and bent, has spent so many years among his sheep that he has lost all notice and observation there is no "speculation in his eye" for anything but his sheep.
He seemed always on the watch for her coming, and she was never more than a few yards from the house before the big dog was silently brushing the grass by her side. His greatest joy was to follow her on long rides into the bush, putting up an occasional hare and scurrying after it in the futile way of collies, barking at the swallows overhead, and keeping pace with Bobs' long, easy canter.
Some such thoughts crossed Waverley's mind as he paced his horse slowly through the rugged and flinty street of Tully-Veolan, interrupted only in his meditations by the occasional caprioles which his charger exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those canine Cossacks, the COLLIES before mentioned.
As there were but three Danes in the show, their judging would be brief. And it behooved the collies' attendants to have their entries ready. Link, following the example of those around him, took from his pocket the molting dandy brush and set to work once more on Chum's coat. He observed that the rest were brushing their dogs' fur against the grain, to make it fluff up.
"Wha can tell that?" says he. "He's just stra'ad away from his home, or lost the track of a new maister. They do, ye ken, even the collies on the hillsides. Will your ladyship see him?" "Yes yes! That is what I came for. Let me."
His first appraising glance of the double row of collies caused the furrow between his eyes to vanish and brought a grin of complacent satisfaction to his thin lips. For he did not see a single entrant that, in his eyes, seemed to have a ghost of a chance against his idolized pet not a dog as handsome or with half the look of intelligence or with the proudly gay bearing of Chum.
"Wonder if he'll go into the boat with us?" said Snap. "Some dogs don't like the water." "Most collies do," answered Giant. "I'll try him." He called Wags, and the dog leaped into the craft and took his place at the bow. "He'll do for a lookout," said Whopper. "Come on, it's time to start."
They stocked up with fourteen horses, twelve hounds, nine collies, four setters, nineteen servants, innumerable fowls, an' four motor-cars, an' started in pursuit o' happiness. "You see, they had no children, an' all these beasts an' birds were intended to supply the deficiency in human life, an' assist in the campaign.
"Perhaps it is as well that there are no disturbing elements of collies and terriers on the scene, for though I am getting on famously, I am not sure that I am up to the mark of dragging Tray and a giant assailant to the edge of the bank, and pitching them head-foremost into the water." "I should think not," said Dora briefly.
Of course that ended it all though just what there had been to end would have been hard to say. Not long afterwards I met Alan Fraser again, when I was out for a canter on my mare. He was strolling through the beech wood with a couple of big collies, and he stopped short as I drew near. I had to do it Father had decreed my Shirley pride demanded that I should do it.
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