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Show DOGS THAT BROUGHT RUIN. Instincts of tho Wolf Developed In tilt Scotch Collie. Perhaps tho most utter ruin evor Inflicted upon human beings by domestic do-mestic animals, says Answers, was la Patagonia four or flvo years ago. A number of Scotch crofters omlgratcd to North Patagonia and began sheop farming, nt which they vore very succossful. Thoy brought out with thorn sovoral valuablo collies, and theso for a tlmo did good work. But ono winter ono of these farmers died suddenly. His dogs, loft without food, began to devour tho sheop. They ran away, took to tho hills, and became tho progenitors of a race of wild dogs, which como down In pac.t and kill the sheep by hundreds. So serious have matters become that a bounty of 110 a head Is offeree: for these wild collies. |