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worse, but the poor little sheep never recovered. 

 He drank lots of milk, and seemed all right for the 

 first day, but after that he pined away and died in 

 three or four days. 



Running sheep with hounds is a good deal prac- 

 tised in some places. I don't like it. It is a repre- 

 hensible habit, and scares all the game out of the 

 country. It is a very sure and easy way of killing 

 sheep if you have a first-rate dog and the ground 

 is suitable to the sport, but unless those two con- 

 ditions are fulfilled the chance of success is small. 

 Your hound must be very speedy and staunch, and 

 accustomed to the business ; and the sheep must be 

 found near some isolated pinnacle or crags of cliff. 

 You creep up as near as you possibly can to the 

 game, and then start the dog at them, yelling and 

 hallooing, to scare them as much as possible, as soon 

 as you perceive that they have caught sight of the 

 hound. The sheep will run straight up the moun- 

 tain, and will beat any dog in a short time ; but if 

 the hound has got a good start, and if the ground 

 has been pretty level at first, he will press them so 

 hard that one or perhaps two or three of them will 

 take refuge on the first precipitous cliff or crag they 

 can find. If that happens to be an isolated rock so 

 small that the dog can keep guard round the base of 



