granite. With a splendid show of physical 

 power, and with desperate effort, he got him- 

 self to a stand with stiff-legged, sliding bounds 

 along the shelf. Here he paused for a second, 

 then stepped out of sight behind a rock point. 

 Feeling that he must be crippled, I hurriedly 

 scrambled up and out on a promontory from 

 which to look down upon him. He was trot- 

 ting down a slope without even the sign of a 

 limp! 



Sheep do sometimes slip, misjudge a dis- 

 tance, and fall. Usually a bad bruise, a wrenched 

 joint, or a split hoof is the worst injury, though 

 now and then one receives broken legs or ribs, 

 or even a broken neck. Most accidents appear 

 to befall them while they are fleeing through 

 territory with which they are unacquainted. 

 In strange places they are likely to have trouble 

 with loose stones, or they may be compelled to 

 leap without knowing the nature of the land- 

 ing-place. 



A sheep, like a rabbit or a fox, does his great- 

 est work in evading pursuers in territory with 

 which he is intimately acquainted. If closely 



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