flockowner

Updated: May 12, 2025

There are a few pictures, not of a high class three or four prints depicting Dick Turpin's ride to York, and a coloured sketch of some steeplechase winner, or a copy of a well-known engraving representing a feat accomplished many years ago at a farm. A flock of sheep were shorn, the wool carded and spun, and a coat made of it, and worn by the flockowner, and all in one day.

Richard Jefferies - The Toilers of the Field