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was with the hogs. Every night you must lie down with 

 the flock, and with them rise in the morning. To do this 

 then, first of all, before you start, I say again, get ready. 

 Shall I tell you how? "Yes!" Well then — first procure 

 a good stout, steady, quiet yoke of oxen. "Ha ! ha ! ha ! ! ! 

 to drive sheep with, hey ! Why, confound the fellow, he is 

 going to plowing among the stones of his old native 

 state." Oh, no ! I am going to tell you how to drive sheep 

 with a yoke of oxen ; to which I wish you to attach a good 

 substantial wagon, with a box 14 feet long, having boards 

 about one foot wide projecting out over the wheels, to 

 support the cover, and thereby make more room inside, 

 which is to form a house in which you will cook, eat, and 

 sleep for the next two months. In the forward part you 

 will have a small light cooking-stove, with all your dishes 

 of tin; a table with folding legs (the projecting board 

 upon each side forming seats) ; and upon a platform 

 made level with the projecting boards you will have 

 ample room and space for a bed for yourself and three 

 hands, while underneath you have stowage room for 

 trunks, &c. 



Procure for yourself a cheap saddle-horse, which you 

 can turn out upon grass at night, or tie to the wagon and 

 feed, and two dogs, and with three steady, sober young 

 men, and then, after provisioning your ship, you are 

 ready. 



Of course, you will not neglect to put on board an axe, 

 a water bucket, and sundry "small fixings," that will 

 enable you to live without committing that heinous sin — 

 "borrowing." 



You must, particularly at first, and on dusty or muddy 

 days, drive slow — not over ten miles — increasing as the 

 weather and roads are fine, to 15 miles. Upon rainy days, 

 don't expose yourself, and hands, and flocks, to disease 

 and death, merely because "it is such hard work to lie 

 still." Keep quiet — drive slow — let the sheep graze — 

 and be sure that you get up in the morning, and put the 

 sheep to eating the dew — rest an hour at noon, and al- 



