EARLY OBSERVATIONS 



tions through the tent flap that I cannot stay in bed 

 to meditate on. Through the tent flap I have an 

 excellent view of the haystacks and the stack of oat 

 sheaves. One morning when I opened a lazy eye in 

 the early dawn I was suddenly brought wide awake 

 and sitting up, as the Red Cow and her progeny were 

 among the stacks. The sleepy inhabitants of the 

 tent were immediately rousted out, and for the next 

 few minutes we took the Kneipp cure together while 

 sending Fenceviewer I. and her family back through 

 the gate she had managed to work open. On an- 

 other morning my first observation was of a team of 

 horses that had come in from the road and were try- 

 ing to founder themselves on our fodder. Luckily 

 Sheppy was loose and he attended to their case 

 without making it necessary for me to do anything 

 more than whistle for him and yell, "Sick 'era!" 



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