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HIGHLAND SHEEP. 



Pasturing together in enormous lierds, and traversing vast ranges of bleak, liilly 

 country, the light and active Highland Sheep is a very intelligent and indepen- 

 dent creature, quite distinct in character from the large, woolly, unintellectual 

 animal that lives only in the fold, and is regularly supplied with its food by the 

 careful hand of its guardian. It is very sensitive to atmospheric influences, 

 and is so ready in obeying the directions of its own instinct, that a good shepherd 

 when he first rises in the morning can generally tell where to find his Sheep, 

 merely by noticing the temperature, the direction of the wind, and the amount of 

 moisture in the air and on the ground. As the Highland Sheep is able to wander 

 to considerable distances from its proper Jiome, the shepherd is aided in his 

 laborious task by several of those wonderful dogs whose virtues and powers 

 have so often been recorded. 



