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“I call for volunteers!” he said. “The 
sheep are out in the bottoms—who will go 
with me to salt them and fetch them up¬ 
land afterward?” 
Everybody cried “I,” but he shook his 
head, saying: “A flock can’t fold a flock — 
one confuses the other. You come, Wyeth 
— your legs are so long and light. We’ll 
take Miss Diana because her skirt is so 
sensibly short.” 
“Then I’m going—not because of any¬ 
body’s sheep, but after buckberries — ditch 
is full of them — and nobody has thought 
before to bring in a single spray,” William 
said stoutly, whereat the others smiled 
significantly, Roger saying to Susan as the 
three went away: “Isn’t he the dearest old 
blunder-head, Uncle Major? Thinks Wat 
ought to have the moon if he cries for it — 
or even Diana — Billy to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding.” 
“Cruelty to animals — that’s what I call 
it,” Susan said energetically. “We all know 
Wat is head over ears in love with Anna 
Walton — and she may get here long before 
he’s back.” 
Roger gave her a keen look, then said 
irrelevantly: “A match to a Christmas is 
Nancy’s average — I'm wondered where 
lightning will strike this time?” 
,“Maybe it won’t lighten,” Susan said, run¬ 
ning away from him to the back door. 
The wind, more and more eager and nip¬ 
ping, made brisk walking imperative. 
Thus the shepherds came quickly to the 
lowlands, where sheep ran riot amid stand¬ 
ing cornstalks. They came tumbling pell 
mell at the Major’s call — it was pretty to 
see them clustered and crowded about the 
little heaps of salt. Tame creatures for 
the most part, yet Sir Bevis, the imported 
ram, tossed a truculent head, baa-ing 
loudly as he snuffed strangers. When 
Wyeth challenged him by lowering his 
head, and advancing with clenched fists, 
the ram, nothing loath, came on full tilt, 
so swiftly he overset his careless adver¬ 
sary, and gave him a thwack or two with 
his crumply horns. William and the 
Major were for interfering, but Wyeth 
would not have it. In a wink he was up, 
had caught the supple beast about the neck, 
scrambled somehow on his back, leaned 
over and caught fast hold of the horns. 
Half a minute he sat there, laughing hard 
— then scrambled off, but kept hold of a 
horn, saying to Sir Bevis : “Easy, old man ! 
I took a mean advantage — now, let’s be 
friends.” With that he stroked the ram’s 
nose, and let his hand fall softly under the 
jaws, soothing the creature inarticulately 
the while. Only a few of the flock had 
paid the least heed to the scuffle — they 
were so humanly eager at getting the 
thing they wanted. Sir Bevis, freed, ran 
cravenly into the thick of them, then, 
panoplied by numbers, flung up his nose 
again bleating defiance. 
The Major walked around the bunches, 
eyeing each one narrowly. He also eyed 
the clouds, then looked regretfully at the 
stripped cornfield. The flock had been so 
happy there, ranging and running, nipping 
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