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in either as they appeared to those not conversant 

 with them ; as she could prove by two stories she 

 had heard from their shepherd^ who was a Scotchman^ 

 and had witnessed the facts.* 



^'^ No animal/' resumed she, " is more attached to 

 that spot of earth on which it was reared, than the sheep. 

 A ewe that was driven from Scotland into Yorkshire, 

 made her escape, and after passing through towns, 

 crossing rivers, &c. revisited her native spot in the 

 hills of Annandale. Another from Perthshire came 

 back to Hundishope, a store-farm nearly twenty-three 

 miles distant from Edinburgh. When she reached 

 Stirling, it was fair-day : she durst not venture 

 through the town amongst the populace, but rested 

 herself at its north side till the fair dispersed, and 

 came through late in the evening." 



Our repast being finished, we thanked our kind 

 hostess for our entertainment, and returned by an- 

 other path, along the sea-shore, leading over the crag 

 of a projecting rock, which commanded a most beautiful 

 view of the setting sun, gradually sinking into the 

 ocean, and tinting the waves with the richest colours. 

 Whilst I was enjoying the extensive prospect, Rachel 

 exclaimed: " Observe, beneath, that crowd of fisher- 

 men ! they seem to have found something curious in 

 the water ; let us descend, and see what it is !" 

 * Repertory of Arts. 



