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this time cannot be pictured; he made every 
possible attempt to pass the boy, and even 
determined to jump into the river, rather 
than not follow the Dog! This continued 
till the prospect closed, and we had lost sight 
of our new ally, whose unexpected offer of 
amity to the Dalmatian seemed ever after to 
operate as a friendly admonition; for, from 
that day, he was cured of following Sheep !” 
The Wild Sheep, of which two specimens 
of local varieties, with as many names, and 
of which many other local varieties and 
names might be mentioned, is a single spe- 
cies; and the Sheep is easily and broadly 
distinguished from every other animal upon 
the globe, if it were only by its horns. It is 
the cockneyism, however, of Kuropeans, in 
visiting foreign climates, or in contemplating 
their productions, to cry out Sheep where- 
ever they see wool ; not understanding, that 
upon every animal whatever, which is either 
the natural native of very cold climates, or 
very hilly, or other situations, or can bear to 
 Zanaperted thither, nature is always 
ready to produce a coat of wool beneath, 
and even »vertopping the hair, as occasion 
