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will pass them by. The writer has seen such sheep 

 at county fairs, but he did not prick his fingers by 

 handling them. If a shepherd wants to trim his 

 sheep a little, how can he do it if these burs are 

 present in the fleece? It may be done by spending 

 a great deal of time picking them out, but this is 

 a very slow and unpleasant job, and after much 

 picking the shepherd cannot even then get the 

 fleece into proper shape, to say nothing about 

 spoiling his sheep shears. 



When the first sheep is noticed carrying some of 

 these pests a thorough search should be made over 

 the field in which the sheep are pasturing, and 

 wherever these miserable weeds are found they 

 should be cut down and burned, and should then 

 be fought to a finish until they are all destroyed. 

 The writer has never believed in Sunday work, ex- 

 cept performing the necessary chores, as the day 

 belongs to God and in the writer's opinion no man 

 has ever gained much by doing work on Sunday 

 that should be done on Saturday or Monday. How- 

 ever, if on walking through the sheep pasture on 

 Sunday he should see a clump of burdocks, he 

 would immediately take out his jack-knife and 

 destroy them, because he despises them so much. 

 Of course, if there were many of them he would 

 not meddle with them on Sunday, but would go 

 after them on Monday morning before breakfast. 



