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Updated: September 6, 2025
Instead of improving the soil, they persist in keeping up the pasture-lands, however depreciated they may be in value, and the lazy borough, growing away from the plain, has naturally spread riverward. It is seen from afar sprawling along the banks like a cow-herd taking a siesta by the water-side.
He awoke the next morning while all were still sleeping, rose and walked round the manor. The lads were still playing cards in the stable. "Why aren't you asleep?" one of them asked him. "I have had all I want," he replied. He called the cow-herd. The man came out, stood still, scratched his head, and swore angrily indignant at being aroused. "Don't meddle in other people's affairs," he grunted.
The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he is happy in the next; he is happy in both. He is happy when he thinks of the good he has done; he is still more happy when going on the good path. The thoughtless man, even if he can recite a large portion of the law, but is not a doer of it, has no share in the priesthood, but is like a cow-herd counting the cows of others.
It seems that, though the cow-herd himself was allowed to regard Alfred as a man of rank in disguise though even he did not know that it was the king his wife was not admitted, even in this partial way, into the secret.
But with the child's body the white wings had flown down into the wave-buried valleys, and to a cleft of the sea-hills to rest. When the long days of summer began, Killian, the cow-herd, was able to lead his drove up into the hills, giving them the high pastures to range.
They came home rather late that evening and found the farm in a great state of commotion. The red-haired cow-herd was shouting and crying in an unintelligible way; the house seemed to be deserted. They met the Herr Baron also preparing to set out in a hurry. "What's the matter? Where is everybody?" said mother.
Athelney was, however, scarcely deserving of a name, for it was nothing but a small spot of dry land in the midst of a morass, which, as grass would grow upon it in the openings among the trees, a simple cow-herd had taken possession of, and built his hut there. The solid land which the cow-herd called his farm was only about two acres in extent.
For when pure rules of conduct are observed then there is true religion; without these, virtue languishes; found yourselves therefore well on these my precepts; grounded thus in rules of purity, the springs of feeling will be well controlled, even as the well-instructed cow-herd guides well his cattle.
For, seeing that they were always putting to death citizens and powerful men, he could not refrain from observing, in a company where he was, that if he to whom the care of cattle was committed, exhibited them every day leaner and fewer in number, it would be very strange if he would not himself confess that he was a bad cow-herd.
Not that it was unbroken; for up the mountain's side came, by fits and starts, the tinkling of the bells, which in this country are suspended to the necks of the cattle when they are feeding; intermixed with an occasional whoop, or snatch of a song, or merry whistle from the cow-herd; while the branches over-head, for we sat down in the skirts of a low pine wood, were crowded with little birds, whose sweet but not loud notes completed one of the most exquisite concerts to which, in any part of the world, I have ever listened.
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