A CLEVER COLLIE.

Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 1

A CLEVER COLLIE.

A shepherd once, to prove the quickness at. his dog, which was lying before the fire in the house, eaid to a visitor in the middle of a sentence concerning something else: "I'm thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes." Tboogh he purposely laid no stress on these words, »nd said them in a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared to be atleep, immediately jumped up, and leaping through the open window scrambled up-to the tnrf roof of the house, from which he could see the potato field. He then, not seeing the oow there, ran and looked into the barn, where she was, and finding ih*6 all was right came back to the home. After a short time the shepherd said tbe sf me words again, and tbe dog repeated his look-out; but on the* false alarm being a third time given, tbe dog got up, and wagging bis tail looked bis master in the face with so cemioal an expression of interrogation that he could not help laughing •loud •e him, on which, with a alight growl, he laid himself down in his warm .comer with an offended air, as if determined mot to be made a fool of again,' *