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But yet, busy as we were, we found time to look up a congregation. The very first Sunday afternoon, whilst we were still in the midst of a chaos of chips and big boxes and straw and empty china-barrels, our own shepherds came over, by invitation, and the only very near neighbours we had a Scotch head-shepherd and his charming young wife, and we held a Service in the half-furnished drawing room.
The down farms are sometimes very large, running perhaps in long narrow strips of land for two or three miles. Although he employs a head-shepherd, and even a bailiff, he finds it necessary, if he would succeed in making a profit, to be pretty well ubiquitous. They all want looking after sharply.
Ellerby informed his shepherd that a friend of his, a good man though not a rich one, was anxious to take him as head-shepherd, with good wages and a good cottage rent free. The only drawback for the Bawcombes was that it would take them still farther from home, for the farm was in Dorset, although quite near the Wiltshire border.
He also took an intense interest in his wethers, and almost every day he would go to Caleb, tending his flock on the down, to sit by him and ask a hundred questions about sheep and their management. He looked on Caleb, as head-shepherd on a good-sized farm, as the most important and most fortunate person he knew, and was very proud to have him as guide, philosopher, and friend.
All this is very important to a shepherd, and explains the reason an old head-shepherd had for saying to me that he had never had, and never would have, a dog he had not trained himself.
He was a sort of Tamagno of the downs, with a tremendous voice audible a mile away. Dan'l Burdon, the treasure-seeker The shepherd's feeling for the Bible Effect of the pastoral life The shepherd's story of Isaac's boyhood The village on the Wylye One of the shepherd's early memories was of Dan'l Burdon, a labourer on the farm where Isaac Bawcombe was head-shepherd.
"And do you live hereabouts?" inquired Jacob. "Yes; my father's head-shepherd at Tanindie. We all live together, my mother and all." "And you find you can do your work without the drink?" "Look there," said the other, stopping short, and baring his arm. "Feel that; some muscle there, I reckon. That muscle's grown on unfermented liquors. Me and my four brothers are all just alike.
That a man of his fine powers, a head-shepherd on a large hill-farm, should have had no better pay than that down to the year 1860, after nearly half a century of work in one place, seems almost incredible. Even his sons, as they grew up to man's estate, advised him to ask for an increase, but he would not.
By and by he came into collision with Caleb, one of the villagers against whom he cherished a special grudge, and this small affair resulted in the dissolution of the club. At this time Caleb was head-shepherd at Bartle's Cross, a large farm above a mile and a half from the village.
I related the story of this dog to a shepherd in the very district where Watch had lived and served his master so well one who had been head-shepherd for upwards of forty years at Imber Court, the principal farm at the small downland village of Imber.
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