Show boref re 0 r J ilg vm 0 q by albert jubert payson terhune HOW IT ALL STARTED 14 1 I J 1141 R 41 rhe collie rushed at a cevy clivy of old hens and drove them clean over f the th fence LD MAN was watching OLD 0 the cleer work of colonel arouses oung collie in rounding up and driving a chick ns out of the I 1 rouse garden the collie rushed la in helter fashion at a bevy of 0 old hens which were scratching up a bed of 0 new planted seed seeds harrying hurrying and sad fright ains theau he rounded them into a squawking and flapping bunch and then drove them clean over the feuce in a dramatic and noisy fashion then lie tie toward a fluster flus terou 04 mother hen with six huffy fluffy yellow baby chick chicks no longer did he dash at the intruders instead Iru tead be he proceeded in leisurely lelu rely carefulness lowly slowly urging the baby brood toward a gap in the fence and nd giving their clucking and excited mother plenty of time to adapt her tier pace to theirs old man inn negley looked on with ap then lie tie turned on colonel who wag was superintending the wort worl of eviction that pup Is a natural born herder remarked negley most host oung dogs would hae rushed in among the hock flock and perhaps trampled one of thoe chick chicks lour ow collie handled the whole flock ns as cle cleverly as a veteran sheep dog handles a herd of sheep L ler ser see some splay tolotea little collie drie in il its a sight night worth remembering oat out beyond lied red baurr cal I 1 used to watch a seven mouth black collie puppy manago ge a bunch of 2 2100 sheep they were stringy withers end and he lie could race them without harming thein them at all when they frayed strayed out of bounds but when be he came to dravk rt A band hand rul full of ewes with their iambi lambs he was wall as gentle as ns a mother with a sick thild just the way your pap pup was with those baby chickens t lit it Is tha same with all natural it Is to an education to watch them at work there isn an it one of them that know his life belongs to the flock and that be he must throw away tile tits life if it necessary to save the flock fiock from danger many and many a dog has lai done just that too did it ever strike you as queer that a fog dog Is the only animal that will work for mankind of his own accord and od even destroy other animals for 2 baket funny lent hint it four your cattle wont herd other cattle tour your horae wont round up and drive other hors horses unless tj ereIs Is a man on bis his back to make tameo mm it no animal but UK tho dg d ta g will work for man and hun bun for man aril voluntarily unta rily risk his ife man and for posses possess slorA lorm theres a mighty bond between man nod and dog that isn t found anywhere else in the animal not only tho dop either bat but so called mongrels and curs as well die for their matter end for duty every bit as in quickly as an a pare bred will speaking of ac cure ra beres an odd thing I 1 read at the public library the other night back in i clent times the nobles U 1 ta to get extra pending spending money for themselves by thinking up new taxes to pot put oo 00 the people one bright lawmaker noticed bow how fond everyone was of ef dogs and bow even the poorest man liked to bare bays a R dog of his own that SATO a bim an AD idea for a new tax dare put a heavier tax on the boxi themselves so he got amount around I 1 it this way I 1 ile framed fremed a law a putting heavy leavy tax oa on every dogs dorm tall NO thai that 14 joke colonel it really real happened I 1 bo he figured that log owners would all be ao so softhearted that they would pay pity the tax than let their doc alls tails be cut ait but that Is where he lie mad made his mistake As A coca soon its s the new vew tax bl lebed people got basy busy try birto lewid it 4 the ahen obera urd to tf ft A tax la in states dum jay ot of amk n lioa lio 1 taxing tax nil imposed on ec do dogs a sail smil tuo rica people paid it no than to let their valuable does dogs be mutt mutilated lateL bit blit a lot of 0 poor people t afford to pay par the tax at the tile name time they ther want to lose their pet do duss s I 1 so these poor mm evaded the tax by cutting oft off their does dogs tails in that war way pretty soon you could tell at a distance a rich man a purebred dop doir from a poor roans mans mongrel dog by the boet et that the poor man a doe dog bd tad ao vall these poor roena mens dog dogs were referred to aa as curtailed i joes dogs then pretty BOOD soon the word nord curtail was shortened tj curl cur and nd mongrel dogs were rotten of as cur cue doga the name has stuck ever since though the tax was taken off long ago not one person in a hundred under stands how such doss dogs happen to be called curs I 1 it was a cruel thing to cut off the tile dogs tails and it was an injurious too for instance you may have noticed just now how your dogs dog s tall swirled around when hi ba was turning sharply as he ran A dog dogs a tall serves aa an a sort at of rt ater er to help guide and steady him film when 1 le turns oLd suddenly denly in running another thing roost most people don t I 1 now they think a dogs tall la is only un ornament or a thing to wag they don know it has lins a practical use 1 I ve read somewhere that the mas tiff get his tits name from masly an art old time express expression lon for cur that i must have ben been before mastiffs were dei developed eloped into the splendid breed they are now from the beginning of 0 history the dog lias fins been roan man a chum it wai only hen certain kinds of dogs were found to be the best beat for certain kinds of work or sport that our caveman an costers bred those doc dop to other doga dogs of their own sort to perpetuate tha th bast variety of ot hunting dog lot or watch dog or herding doe dog or whatever v type that particular dog happened to be that was bow how the dir different ferent breeds started different Dif forent dogs were used tor for different purposes and then bred for those same purpose purposes so instead of just one or two kaada tt natural wild breeds there developed dozens of breeds some were good for handling the flocks docks and sad herds others for coursing game and others as leases of burden tb the e best of each 0 of these varieties were bred together and sad la to a few gen ten orations erat lons there were no longer just one 0 or r two types the types ranged as far anait as 23 the lapdog and the newfoundland astery century since tuen then has afta a change in every breed look I boote at the australian dingo a reddish wild dog that Is supposed t to 0 be like the original doe dog the cavemen had hardly recognize him film as the same species as thit that colue collie dog a of f yours tes yes if the dog his blis done a lot for cata mm then man has done just as much h in a way for r the doff dogs COPY copyright TIght by bf tb Ua UeN Naught tue inai |