THE SHEEP. 



Highland Shepherd, Dog, and Sheep. 



The Common Domestic Sheep is so well known that no description of it is needed. Of the affection of 

 the ewe for its young, a touching anecdote is related as having occurred in the Highlands of Scotland. In a 

 severe snow storm, late in April, several score of lambs perished. Among these was the offspring of a 

 ewe, who took her loss so much to heart that she placed herself beside the dead lamb. " I visited her," 

 says the narrator " every morning and evening for the first eight days, and never found her above two or 

 three yards from the lamb ; and often, as I went my way round, she eyed me as I came near, and kept 

 stamping with her foot and whistling through her nose to frighten away the dog. The weather grew warm, 

 and the dead lamb, soon decayed ; but still the affectionate mother kept hanging with fondness over the 

 poor remains." For two weeks she never left the spot, and for seven days longer she visited it every morn- 

 ing and evening, uttering a few sorrowful plaints, till every particle of the remains of her offspring had 

 been wasted away by the action of the elements. 

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