SARDINIA AXI) ITS WILD SHEEP 



NoTWlTiisrAMMNd tlic pcrpctual striigok' to make life 

 more eomfoi'tal>lf, it: is a master passioii witli some of us 

 to eiiiaiici[)ate (jiirseU'es tioiii IkiIijIoii, and IVdin time to 

 time to escape from tliis complex civilisation to some 

 barbarous land, there to become for a few weeks liappy 

 savages like our ancestors. If. in addition, oik* can sd fai' 

 imitate tliose noble creatures as to spend the time in 

 killini;- something, the deception is more perfect. One's 

 ]ia]>])iness is com])lete if the animal to l)c liunlcd lives in a 

 inoiintaiiioiis count r\'. and isditlieult to oliiain, Imi iua\ lie 

 iairlv stalked in the open. \t least, that i> ni\ case. 



.\ fit of this unquenchable longing had sci/cd nic at 

 the beginning of ISRO. and the pai-ficula)- excuse wliicli 

 served was the County ( 'oiiiieil Mleeiidus. I was iiersnii;di\- 

 responsible fni' the conduct of lifty-six ofihein. nnd I ask 

 any candid person whether that did not justily the lUick- 

 fever from which I was suffering. On IStli .Iannar\ I 

 lennu'i] that tlie contests had all |ia>-e(l «iir wiihout 

 a hitch, and the anxieties of the previous weeks were 



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