The famous adventures of a devoted dog. When Sam Carraclough falls on hard times, he is forced to sell his prize collie to a wealthy family. But Lassie, although she is taken hundreds of miles away, knows it is her duty to meet young Joe from school - so she starts on the long and difficult journey home.
Not for sale
Everyone in Greenall Bridge knew Sam Carraclough's Lassie. In fact, you might say that she was the best known dog in the village - and for three reasons.
First, because nearly every man in the village agreed, she was the finest collie he had ever laid eyes on.
This was a praise indeed, for Greenall Bridge is in the country of Yorkshire, and of all places in the world it is here that the dog is really king. In that bleak part of northern England the dog seems to thrive as it does nowhere else. The wind and the cold rains sweep over the flat moorlands, making the dogs rich-coated and as sturdy as the people who live there.
The people love dogs and are clever at raising them. You can go into any one of the hundreds of small mining villages in the largest of England's counties and see, walking at the heels of humbly clad workmen, dogs of such a fine breed and aristocratic bearing as to arouse the envy of wealthier dog fanciers from other parts of the world. [...]
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