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require an hour's confinement, they arc 

 driven into a corner, and kept pent up 

 there, by one or more dogs, until the 

 bpfinefs be completed. 



If an experienced Shepherd wifh to m-» 

 fpedl his flock, in a curfory way, he places 

 himfelf in the middle of the field or piece 

 they are depafturing, and, giving a v^hiftle 

 or a fhout, the dogs and the flieep are 

 equally obedient to the found ; the one 

 flies from hirn, with their fwifteil fpeed, 

 while the other, from every quarter, draw 

 towards him in confiderable hafte, long 

 before the dogs have time to approach 

 them. The fi:ragglers are driven in, by 

 the circuitous route of the dogs ; which 

 keep flying round, from fide to fide, until 

 the flock be gathered round the Shepherd, 

 clofe enough, not only to be feen, but to 

 be laid hold of, by him, if any thing wrong 

 be fufpe(5led *. 



An objection v/ould be raifed againfl this 

 practice, by the Shepherds of heavy, long- 

 wooled Sheep ; as tending to alarm, diflurb, 

 ^nd injure the Sheep 5 but little of this is 



in 

 *. Are not thefe pra<Slices Fremh ? 



