24 SEPTEMBER 1904, Page 14

WELSH SHEEP-DOGS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTATOR:1 have read your remarks in last week's Spectator wondering whether Welsh sheep-dogs are worked in Welsh. I have lately spent a month near Nevin, in Carnarvonshire, where all the sheep-dogs are spoken to in Welsh. Only a few of the farm men can talk English; they address their dogs as " ci da " (good dog). Nearly all the dogs are Scotch collies, and are generally called 'Carlo' or Rock.' One of the dogs near us, called Rock,' would go alone to the hills and fetch any herd of cows he was told to.—I am, Sir, &c., Lucknow Comer, Nottingham.

GEOFFREY VICKERS*