THE SHEEP. 



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again, but the sheep, though equally " taken 

 aback," was not yet daunted. Several times he 

 renewed the onset, until it at last began to dawn 

 upon him that something must be wrong, and he 



A hard Jiiasfcr. 



trotted off with a shake of the ears, as if feeline 

 puzzled and out of humour with himself at his 

 unaccountable failure to knock the man down. 



There is anotl^er wild habit of sheep which can 

 be observed wherever a drove is moving alonsf a 



