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SHEEP WORRIED BY A HORSE. 
Lake. He left home early one morning, accompanied by 
his shepherd’s dog, to look after some sheep in the moun- 
tains, near Rydal, about four miles distant, and discovering 
two at the bottom of a precipice, between two rocks, he de- 
scended, with the view of extricating them ; but when he got 
to the bottom he could neither assist them, nor get up him- 
self again, and there he was confined until midnight. The 
faithful dog remained at the top of the precipice watching 
his master, but at nightfall he proceeded home, scratched the 
door, and was let in by his mistress, who expressed her sur- 
prise at the barking of the dog, and the non-arrival of her 
husband. She immediately called up the servant man, and 
told him she felt sure, from the strange conduct of the 
dog, that something must have happened to his master. 
She told the man to take a lanthorn and come ropes, and 
follow the dog, taking care to get assistance at Ambleside, 
which he did. No sooner had the man opened the door than 
the dog bounded out, leaped up at him, barked, and then ran 
forward, but quickly returned, leaped up again, and then ran 
forward again, as if to hasten the man’s speed. The faithful 
dog led the man and his companions to the prison of his 
master, the ropes were instantly lowered, and the shepherd 
was providentially and quickly released, through the instru- 
mentality of a dog, from his perilous situation. The sheep 
were hoisted up with the ropes . — Liverpool Mercury . 
SHEEP WORRIED BY A HORSE. 
On Saturday the 25th October, a young horse out at grass, 
belonging to Mr. W. Ashburner, Pennington, near Ulver- 
stone, was discovered making a furious attack upon a sheep. 
It seized the sheep with its teeth, and tossed it a considerable 
height three or four times, then kneeling upon it, worried 
and tore it with the ferocity of a bull-dog. The sheep, a large 
fat one of 20lb per quarter, when with difficulty rescued from 
the savage attack of the horse, was not quite dead, but so 
mangled and torn that it was killed immediately, there being 
no hopes whatever of its recovery. About a fortnight before 
a sheep was discovered in the same field worried to death in 
a frightful manner, and three others very much mangled, and 
there is no doubt this was the work of the same horse. — 
Carlisle Patriot. 
