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paratively light, he has time to keep a neat camp, 

 to hunt a little for grouse or deer, and the flock 

 itself is a source of great pleasure, if he is more 

 than an indifferent hireling. In the evenings when 

 the ewes have assembled, perhaps on the slope of 

 some ravine, the lambs will disengage themselves 

 from the flock, and withdrawing a little way will race 

 up and down in mobs, a fuzzy flood, undulating over 



A SHEEP WAGON ON THE RANGE. 



the ground. Again some belligerents will square 

 off and fight mock fights, butting by twos and threes 

 until one decides that too rough a sport. Again 

 there will be a game of leap frog, or "follow your 

 leader, " and strings of lambs will race up over 

 banks and rocks and jump stiff-legged down the 

 other side. 



After a time some old ewe, feeling a pressure 

 within her udder, will disengage herself from the 



