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