Author: Emily Carr

Beacon Hill

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

In the early morning the dogs burst from their sleeping quarters to bunch by the garden gate, panting for a race across Beacon Hill Park. Springs that had wound themselves tighter and tighter in their bodies all night would loose with a whirr on the opening of the…

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Punk

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

 Loo’s strong,beautiful pups found a ready market. A soldier in Victoria owned a fine Old English Bobtail Sheepdog. When he went to the war his Bobtail was desolate. I heard of the dog and went to the soldier’s house, saw the shaggy huddle of misery watching the street corner…

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Kennel

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

The ideas of a Bobtail kennel did not rush into my mind with a sudden burst. It matured slowly, growing from a sincere love of and admiration for the breed, awaked by my dog, Billie, a half-bred Old English Bobtail Sheep-dog. Billie’s Bobtail half was crammed with the…

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