Herds and Flocks and Horses. 



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HAMPSHIRES 



at night. They all seemed the same to us in those days, and 

 really there was but little difference as compared with what 

 we see today. Look at the Shropshire, the Hampshire, the 

 Cotswold, the Southdown, the Cheviot, the Dorset, the Oxford- 

 Down, the Leicester, the Lincoln, the Suffolk and the Ram- 

 bouillet, which are the fashionable breeds of today, and see 

 how they compare with those that were thought great when we 

 were boys. 



The whole thing is beautiful in the extreme, and in it we 

 can but see the hand of a Divine power that works only for 

 good, and towards an end that must reach absolute perfec- 

 tion. 



