24 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—With regard to the

point you raise in your issue of the 17th inst. as to Welsh sheep-dogs. They are undoubtedly worked in Welsh. On some farms a mixture of Welsh and English is the language they understand. Last May I was witness of the difficulties experienced by a collie which had been sent from Cumberland to a Welsh sheep farm. She "hadn't the language," and it was almost pathetic to see the eager endeavour to do her duty and the sad results of mis- understood orders. 'Dinah' evidently felt her position keenly, and lived a sad and solitary life, a life of bared teeth, an outcast from the other Welsh-speaking sheep-dogs.—I am, Sir, &c.,