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Updated: June 11, 2025
But at Willenslee, I never needed to drive home a sheep by force, with dogs, or in any other way than the following: I found every ewe, of course, 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 that I choose to lead her.
Eustachius; but non-Celtic saints are almost as much out of place in Cornwall as exotic plants are, and St. Ewe was probably some forgotten British or Welsh missionary. A former clergyman of this parish appears to have been notable as a healer of bodies as well of souls. We read of him that "Martin Atwell, parson of St.
In the third year, a shear hog or four-toothed wether, a four-toothed ewe or thaive. The fourth year, a six-toothed wether or ewe. The fifth year, having eight broad teeth, they are said to be full-mouthed sheep.
'A sheep is after passing, said the farmer I was talking to, 'but it was not one of yours, for it was too wilful; it was a mountain sheep. Sometimes animals are astray in this way for a considerable time it is not unusual to meet a man the day after a fair wandering through the country, asking after a lost heifer, or ewe but they are always well marked and are found in the end.
If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine. Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
The ewe, when she has ceased bearing, is trained to assist in field and garden operations, to pull up cabbages, carrots, and other vegetables, being, in short, more useful to us than the dog. In killing animals for food all painful processes are avoided.
A left-handed boy is all right in the world. Your wife has twins then think of the woman, the one ewe lamb of 'the poor wanton. If you do not tell her, you will have her here making a noise, as you say. I wonder she has not been here on your door-step." "I had a letter from her to-day. She is coming-ah, mon dieu!" "When?" There was a tap at the window. The Notary started.
I had rather live on these free green hills with the clear blue sky above me, and my good old ewe for my comrade' and he fell to caressing the face of an old sheep which had come up to him, a white, mountain- bleached sheep with fine and delicate limbs.
"The carriage of a greasy paper full of meat is too much even for my philanthropy; but I take him dry biscuits sometimes Spratt's meat biscuits and tobacco for the beggar. He is an old soldier and wears his medal; and the dog Boxer is his name is like Nathan's ewe lamb to him. He has got a crippled son a natural he calls him who fetches him home in the evening.
He has whipped my father several times on account of a lost ewe, or a goat which had broken its leg, or because a little milk was spilled in the cheese-making season. I would have received his blows myself had it not been for the respect he feels for me on account of having seen me caressed sometimes by Sónnica."
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