230 RED DEER. 



take it if they can ; yet the same magpies 

 ride on the sheep's back as he walks, and 

 remove pests from the wool. 



The way to kill these birds is to hang 

 up a dead lamb, poisoned, in a tree ; they 

 tear the flesh, and are destroyed by the poison 

 it has absorbed. There are always some 

 round the kennels when the hounds have 

 flesh-food ; it is generally hung in a tree, 

 and numbers of magpies come to it. If a 

 shepherd sees a sheep lying on its back he 

 hastens, of course, at once to help it to roll 

 over and regain its feet, for if not able to 

 get up in time the sheep would die. Collies 

 are the favourite sheep-dogs on the moors, 

 and they are very intelligent. A collie was 

 seen, when the shepherd was not about, to 

 run of his own accord to a sheep on its back, 

 and first bark at it to force the animal to 

 fresh exertions. But when the dog found 

 that the sheep, try as much as it would, 



