HERDS AND FLOCKS AND HORSES. 



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HAMPSHIRES 



MI ni^ht. They Mil seemed the same to us in those days, and 

 really then* was hut little difference MS compared with what 

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

 I'otswohl, ihe Southdown, the Cheviot, the Dorset, the Oxford- 

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

 houillet. which are the fashionable breeds of today, and see 

 how they rompare with those that were thought great when we 

 were hoys. 



The whole thin^ is beautiful in the extreme, and in it we 

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

 ^ond. and towards an end that must reach absolute perfec- 

 tion. 



