The Sheep-Fluke. 



mo re fully aware 

 o£ how easy it 

 is to make mis- 

 takes, and of 

 how common 

 mistakes are. 

 He must resist 

 the public de- 

 mand for the re- 

 sults of his work, 

 and he must re- 

 sist the pressure 

 of his own feel- 

 ings, until he is 

 perfectly certain 

 he is right. He 

 must, it may be, 

 repeat months or 

 even years of 

 work to corrobo- 

 rate his first re- 

 sult, and elimi- 

 nate all chance 

 of error. He 

 must, in fairness 

 to his scientific 

 confreres, ascer- 

 tain whether any 

 one of them may 

 not have reached 

 the same con- 

 clusion. When 

 torn by these 

 various feelings, 

 and while yet in 

 a state of uncer- 

 tainty, mayhap 

 he is prema- 

 turely ordered 

 by his depart- 

 ment to make his 

 results known, 

 and then, as we 

 know from some 

 few conspicuous 

 cases, disastrous 

 results may fol- 

 low. 



Again, the re- 

 sults of an in- 

 vestigation al- 

 lowed to go 

 forth in driblets, 

 are much less 



CollcctinfT and rc- 

 inoviiifc sheep-para- 

 sites for examination. 





