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Globe, Volume II, Issue 168, 19 December 1874, Page 3

The sagacity of a shepherd’s dog was lately exemplified on the farm of Higham, near belonging to Mr John Ballingall. The shepherd happened to lose a and after many hours’ fruitless search on the part of himself and the guidwife, the valuable ‘ picture’ was given up as lost for ever. A collie pup, four months old, made its appearance in the field where the note was supposed to be lost, and with importunity sought to make itself noticeable. The wife could not be bothered with its caressing, so intent was she in looking for the lost* treasure.’ After being ordered off some half-dozen times, the dog eventually stood up on its hind legs, opened its mouth, and there was the note, folded just as it was when it went amissing. With much wagging of its tail, the animal laid the note at the woman’s teet,