Kelpie

The Kelpie, an Australian sheep dog, is an excellent working dog and can muster large numbers of sheep with little or no command guidance.

He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.

There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of his kelpie.

Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.