. Fig. 23.—SCOTCH COLLET DOG, TOM BIDLET. useless from a want of intelligence, the superiority of the whole variety in mental attributes is easily accounted for. For the same reason, when the pet colley gets old and is submitted to the rebuffs of children or strangers, he is apt to become crusty in temper, and sometimes even savage; but he is always most alTectionate to his master, and no dog seems to be more sincerely repentant when he has done wrong. Within the last ten years the colley has become very fashionable as a pet, and his market price has risen from $15 to $150, or even

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