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The next of the great dog shows will contain much evidence of the invincible capacity of the British for finding and making' new varieties. The very newest sort is a dog of peculiar parts
and its home and origin happen to be very familiar to me. It comes from a shire known for good historical reasons as " Little England beyond. Wales," to wit Pembrokeshire ; and it has a name that is not uncongenial to that wild and e that country. For an unknown.number of years in that land of little fields and stone walls, where animals are much more important than crops, the many smallholders have sent out terriers to bring home the cattle ; and the best of the drivers was always a " Corgi." Some were carefully bred to keep the points true, but it is only now that the race is coming into the lime-light ; and it will no doubt for the future possess a proper stud-book of its own. Their inherited instinct to nibble at the heels of standing cattle and to escape the angry kick by crouching, is perhaps their queerest habit, but their popularity will spring from the combination of quick ears and a wide forehead. This gives them .a gay and engaging appearance in harmony with their energetic and companionable character,
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