120 ON THE FOLDING OF SHEEP. 



passing the right arm through the middle hole, or 

 under the last piece but one of the hurdle bars. After 

 placing it, he supports it by one of the cross pieces. 



Q How does a shepherd make a new pen, by the 

 side of another? 



A. One of the sides of the first pen answers for the 

 second : after measuring and lining out the hurdles 

 on the three other sides of the second pen, he carries 

 thither the hurdles of the first : when he has reached 

 the end of the field, after having precisely followed it 

 through its whole length, he makes a new folding on 

 the side of the last, by returning on a new line quite to 

 the other end of the field ; and proceeds in this manner, 

 until there remains no space, which he has not folded- 



Q. How can a shepherd make a new pen in a dark 

 night ? 



A. It is necessary, he should take the precaution to 

 measure the new pen in the day time, and to place a 

 stake at each corner, with white rags tied to the end 

 of it, that he may see them in the night, and be di- 

 1 rected in the manner of placing the hurdles of the 

 new pen. This difficulty may be avoided, by mak- 

 ing a double sized pen in the day time, and dividing it 

 in two, by a partition of hurdles. The shepherd has 

 only to change the pen in that case, by driving the 

 sheep from the one to the other. 



Q. In fields having deep furrows, how can the 

 shepherd range the hurdles upon the sides of the pen, 

 which cross the furrows ? 



A. He cannot, if the precaution has not been taken 

 to level the ground with a plough, by cross furrowing 





