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We owe the loss of him, he said, to a ewe that no shepherd would look twice at, one of the ugliest in the flock, she seemed to me to be and to everybody that laid his eyes on her, and she ought to have been put out of the flock, but though uninviting to our eyes she was longed for by another ram, and so ardently that he could not abide his own ewes and became as a wild sheep on the hills, always on the prowl about my flock, seeking his favourite, and she casting her head back at him nothing loath.
Hence it is plain either that he expected his lambs to thrive on one pull per diem at a milked ewe, and to be kind enough not to suck their mothers, though left with them all night through, or else that the writer of the Odyssey had very hazy notions about the relations between lambs and ewes, and of the ordinary methods of procedure on an upland dairy-farm.
The sun had dipped now below the hills, and the boy, suddenly remembering the ewes and lambs, started to his feet. "Let us also go to the house and see who has come," said Em, as the boy shuffled away to rejoin his flock, while Doss ran at his heels, snapping at the ends of the torn trousers as they fluttered in the wind.
While he sits thus enriching the milk of the dairy, the lads who are to herd the sheep in the coming year go to the hearth and kneeling down before it kiss each other across the projecting end of the Yule log. By this demonstration of affection they are thought to seal the love of the ewes for their lambs.
She recited: "'In Huron, a hewer, Hugh Hughes, Hued yew-trees of unusual hues. Hugh Hughes used blue yews To build sheds for his ewes; So his ewes a blue-hued yew shed use." "Great Scott, girl!" gasped Chet. "That almost twisted your tongue out of kilter." "Any more?" queried Lance, who likewise had wonderingly listened to this display of talent. "Ah-ha! I see Nellie just bursting with one."
The lambs, now grown large and fat, gave less trouble, and when they sometimes stopped irresolutely while the ewes tried to break away Kit understood their hesitation. Two instincts were at work: it was natural to follow their dams, but Mireside was their native heath and they knew they were going to be taken home. Now they had gone some distance, Kit had to make a choice.
I'll pay you off and you can walk back to the ranch or," grimly, "take a short cut through the Pass up there to 'Nebrasky." "I can't hold dem ewes and lambs on de bed-ground no more! Dey know it's time to be gettin' up to deir summer range; nobody has to tell a sheep when to move on."
Then spake the meat-fetching woman and laughed withal: Nay, thou also lookest aloof a pretty deal; whereas what is now to do is to go milk the kine, and to take this guest with us, so that she may drink somewhat better than ewes' milk though the cider be not ready to hand.
He says the hill is not half stocked, and that a hundred or two more ewes would just be the saving of him!" "But," said I, "I shall be entering into an agreement with your father, and shall have to give him receipts!"
When the farmers had taken their leave Peregrine would pay a visit to the pens to see that all the sheep were properly marked and in a fit condition for a moorland life. Next morning he opened the pens and took the ewes and lambs on to the moors. For the next ten months they were under his sole charge, except during the short periods of time when they had to be brought down to the farms.
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