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fondness, more bleating and caressing over this one, than she 
did formerly over the one that was really her own. 
“But this is not what I wanted to explain; it was that the new 
lamb must be put to them at home, for they will only take to it 
in a dark confined place. But I never need to drive a sheep home 
by force, or in any other way than the following. I invariably 
found the ewe standing hanging her head over her dead lamb, 
and, having a piece of twine with me for the purpose, I tied that 
to the lamb’s neck or foot, and, trailing it along, the ewe followed 
me into any house or fold to which I chose to lead her. Any one 
of them would have followed me in that way for miles,with her nose 
close to the lamb, which she never quitted for a moment, except 
to chase the dog, which she would not suffer to walk near me. 
I often, out of curiosity, led them by this means to the side of the 
kitchen fire, and in the midst of servants and dogs ; but the more 
that dangers multiplied around the ewe, she clung the closer to 
her dead offspring, and thought of nothing but protecting it. 
“ The same year there was a severe blast of snow came on by 
night, about the latter end of April, which destroyed several 
scores of our lambs; and as we had not enow of twins and odd 
lambs for the mothers that had lost theirs, we selected the best 
ewes, and put lambs to them. I requested of my master to spare 
me a lamb for a hawked ewe, which was standing over a dead 
lamb, about four miles from the house. He would not do it, but 
bid me let her stand over the lamb for a day or two; for, perhaps, 
a twin would be forthcoming. I did so, and truly she did stand 
to her charge. I visited her every morning and evening, and for 
the first eight days never caught her above two or three yards 
from the lamb. She eyed me long ere I came near her, and 
kept stamping with her foot to fright away the dog; he got a 
regular chase twice a-day as he passed by : but, however excited 
and fierce a ewe may be, she never offers any resistance to man¬ 
kind, being perfectly and meekly passive to them. 
“The weather grew fine and warm, and the dead lamb soon de¬ 
cayed, which the body of a dead lamb docs particularly soon ; 
but still this affectionate and desolate creature kept hanging over 
the poor remains with an affection that seemed to be nourished 
by hopelessness. It often drew the tears from iny eyes to see 
her hanging with such fondness over a few bones mixed with 
