To lovers of animals nothing is more fascinating than a sheep-dog trial: yet it is surprising how few people turn out to see such exhibitions. The pictures on this. bage illustrate the recent trials of the Onkaparinga Sheep-dog Society, South Australia, at which dogs from all over Australia look part. The trials are severe tests, both for the dog and the man who accompanies him, for so much depends on a movement of the hand or a word of command. Each dog has charge of three cheep, which, after having been liberated from a pen, have to be brought round a flag, then driven through a gap between two hurdles, around another flag, through a race ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 8 May 1918, Page 15
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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