Greyfriars Bobby Author:Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle- Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dog?the very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers?bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills- where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)