1782. NORFOLK. 149 



extricate them ; but falling down in the ftrug- 85. 



ele, were ftraneled. I have fince heard of a' HEDGEROW 



TIMBER. 

 horfe being loft in a iimilar manner *. 



86. 



MARCH 5. Mr. John Waller, of Antingham, S B * \ E P OF 

 ihewed me, to-day, feven ewes with fourteen 

 lambs by their fides : and a fifteenth, which he 

 gave to his boy, is alfo alive. 



Laft year he had nine lambs from three 

 ewes ; eight of which he actually reared, and 

 are now alive ; namely, fix with the ewes, and 

 two " cotts" or " cotties" (a name for lambs 

 reared by hand; a common practice here). 



His fheep are, in appearance, of the true Nor- 

 folk breed. He fays he has had the breed 

 eight or nine years, and they have feldom had 

 lefs than two lambs a piece. He keeps them 

 well. 



The Norfolk ewes, in general, bring but one 

 lamb. 



* A ftill more fingular accident occurred to my own 

 knowledge. A mare, probably in fighting with the flies, 

 ftruck her hind-foot into a cleft between two ftems of white- 

 thorn, open at the bottom but narrowing upward ; and 

 being a high-bred, fpirited mare, ftruggled until fhe 

 tore her foot off; leaving it behind her in the cleft ! 



L 3 87. 



