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Which preposition to use with sheepdogs
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Even the familiar reference to the Sheepdog in the Book of Job"But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock"is not without a suggestion of contempt, and it is significant that the only biblical allusion to the dog as a recognised companion of man occurs in the apocryphal Book of Tobit (v. 16), "So they went forth both, and the young man's dog with them.
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In that case it is very possible that the early progenitors of the breed were built upon a larger and more massive scale than is the sheepdog of to-day.