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very day the shepherds had all gone to Eothbury for 

 their dog-licences ; so the sheep were not gathered, and 





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DIGGING THE IMPRISONED SHEEP OUT OF THE SNOW 



on one farm eleven score were lost ! The track of that 

 storm was only about five miles broad. 



Again, in 1894, we had a disastrous storm, and all the 

 sheep on our hill farms had to be driven in to our home 



