The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-26

and which is situated so lar up in the air that if seems to bump the clouds, he lives all alone with his dogs Pete and Fleet-eooking his own meals and doing his own housework. Although he is ten miles from Green field, ten miles which are really one hill on top of another, he says ne IS not lonesome and can easily walk to town in two hours. His stride reminds one or seven-league boots, and he says, These hills are nothing to What were used to in Scotland" only he says IL m such rich Scotch that it Is dlirlcult to understand.
 One dog is a whitefaced male dog worth sixty dollars, and the other F female, worth fifty dollars. Ana they are worth six men," says Snephera Nillar. "Now watch them work, ana he strides into field with the dogs at his heels. Away down the pasture flock of four hundred sheep are graz ing. Putting his fingers to ms lnouth he gives a shrill whistle and the oogs start down the pasture like mao' "Ihey will bring them straight here to me, he says. Silently the sheep began to run, occasionally one making sprinting out from the flock, only to be showed into place again by Fleet or Pete Around the sides the dogs ran' keeping the flock compact as posslole' and then driving the entire focK Iurth- CT to the right or left, as the shephero shouted few words in rough sound i,,r la fO them ' Why, just give them plain, simple d. rections, just as you yourself mlght do." When the flock finally stood De- fore him, Pete bolted around in tront of them and made dive toward the gate, He pointed at the dog proudly You see I purposely left the gate a
 little open, and he's going to guard It. The sheep never moved, while one Of the dogs lay down in front of them. Then the shepherd gave another sharp command, and Pete and Fleet com menced to drive the flock away
 That's the hardest thing to teach them,' he said, ito drive the sheep away"
 To drive the sheep up into the next pasture, where the mother sheep With their babies were, was not such an easy task The lambs had a foolish
 habit of running around in circle, ln- stead of straight forward, and the mothers were inclined to run around after them to see that no harm came to them. Fleet and Pete were plainly
 out of patience several times, as they
 were actually forced to hunt some Of
 the littlest lambs into place. The en7
 tire flock kept up continual baa-a- ling, the mothers in deep tones and I their babies in yappy voices. Arriving finally at the shepherds feet, two kids took occasion to squeeze under the
 wire fence out into the road. Fleet, v
 was all he said, pointing at the tiny Ilambs. Over the fence sprang Fleet land nosed the foolish creatures pack
 into the pasture,
 There is almost an endless amount oi
 things that these dogs do with almost
 a human intelligence A short time
 ago a man by the name of Matthew
 Barber, and MT. Miller started from
 I,eyden with two fiocks of sheep. Mil
 Ter was to take one to Bernardston anc
 Barber was to go on to Greenfield Miller landed his sheep first. Barpel
 went on toward Greenfield, his flocl
 driving quietly, when suddenly Pet
 made his appearance. He went aheat of the flock, raised his head, and tn s isheep stopped in their tracks N | amount of persuasion on Barber's par
 could induce them to go on. Soon Mil , Her appeared and said he had given tn a order to Pete, mile back, to go ahea a and stop the sheep.
 The dogs know every ewe lamb an
 ram in Millar's fiocks, and they neve q fail to find them. A eve jumped ou ;, of the flock the other day over a ston n wall into another flock. Millar whis Q tied to Pete, and in bound the do . was nosing in among the strange fioc a for the escaped eve. He found her i a remarkably short time and droV " her back.
 It was not until autumn that strane .r dogs begin to bother much some n times Millar hears a savage how <, sounds of a struggle, and a cur 1, found lifeless in the pasture with Fle' :. or Pete standing over him. But mor .s frequently he hears growl of war; i, ing, and sees strange dog sllnK D to afraid of the watchful eyes of n n shepherd dog If a dog with evil II Y tent does get into the flock Pete af ro Fleet make short work of him. A dl' $ at the CUTS throat and it is soon ov' ,d for him, while the sheep look on in pa NJ, alyzed terror. "Woolly idiots" Thoml iy son-Seton has called these animal tn and even Shepherd Millar says the ,d are "studid," for they cannot do ev' ir the simplest things to defend then ir selves.
 Most of the shepherd dogs in Amer ,l, ca are practically worthless, for th' ,d are valued. simply as pets, They mu -i1 be trained when young and their fo tb must be corn-meal, oatmeal and pof "a Itivelv no meat. Meat rouses the sa ne age in the dog nature, and 1t wou ,d never do for the animal who must of constantly among sheep.
 Am I afraid that my dogs will ev on suddenly turn wild beasts and kill t o. sheep? Never! I would be willing or guarantee almost anything that tn n- wouldn't" And Millar looked rath ,d resentful. l.-New York Tribune. ey WHY THE PASTOR RAN. in o e +bo +rodi+iopoI stories of f