Jack Gleeson's Kelpie

Though little information on him in which to read Jack Gleeson a young stockman founded the kelpie working breed Of dog in Casterton in Victoria in eighteen seventy one They rival the border collies as farm dogs next to none. And who was this Jack Gleeson little of him I seem to know He worked as a stockman in Casterton more than a century ago He swapped a horse for a female pup off of the nephew of George Robertson of Warrock Which gave rise to the kelpie breed dogs that round up the farm livestock. In the great working dogs he gave rise to his fame lives on today Though i know little about him and of where his bones now lay But the dogs he gave to Australia they serve the farmers well A good working dog of the kelpie breed is never hard to sell. The warm outback of Australia seems to suit the kelpie fine They can work cattle or sheep all day long in the hot Summer sunshine The kelpies never weary even when the going gets tough And always when put to the test they have proved good enough. Jack Gleeson named his dog kelpie which means a malignant water sprite Haunting the fords in streams in the shape of a horse when seen in the moonlight He is the man responsible for the kelpie working dogs of today But little else I know of him or where his bones do lay.