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At this the Rat drew himself up with dignity, for he did not like allusions to his size. 'That is my affair, not yours, he retorted; 'your business is to hand over the buffalo. So just for the fun of the thing, and to amuse themselves at the Rat's expense, the neatherds loosed the buffalo's halter and began to tie it to the little animal's tail.
Kraken levied the tribute and became the richest and most powerful of the Penguins. As a sign of his victory and so as to inspire a salutary terror, he wore a dragon's crest upon his head and he had a habit of saying to the people: "Now that the monster is dead I am the dragon." For many years Orberosia bestowed her favours upon neatherds and shepherds, whom she thought equal to the gods.
"The next consideration is concerning breeding, which I call the period between conception and birth, for these are the beginning and the end of pregnancy. Furthermore, a rule should be made that the male animals are kept apart from the females for some time before they are bred, a period which neatherds and shepherds usually fix at two months.
The labourers of Dombes and the neatherds of Belmont swore that they themselves would be of more avail than a girl against the ferocious beast, and they exclaimed as they stroked the muscles on their arms, "Let the dragon come!" Many men and women had seen him.
But the heart of the other was wasted with grief, and desolate, even as a maiden sorrows that is newly wed. From this time Daphnis became the foremost among the shepherds, and while yet in his earliest youth, he wedded the nymph Nais. Daphnis and Menalcas, at the bidding of the poet, sing the joys of the neatherds and of the shepherds life.
So after a while, when it was a little past noon, they came adown to the lower slopes of the mountains and the foot-hills, which were green and unstony; and thereon were to be seen cattle and neatherds and shepherds, and here and there the garth of a homestead, and fenced acres about it.
The poor peasants, wool-carders, and neatherds of the Cevennes, formed only a small and insignificant section of the great body of men who were about the same time engaged in different countries of Europe in vindicating the cause of civil and religious liberty.
Such a hand at a bargain! By and by he came to where some neatherds were herding their cattle. One of them was milking a buffalo, and having no pail he used his shoes instead. 'Oh fie! oh fie! cried the cleanly Rat, quite shocked at the sight. 'What a nasty dirty trick! why don't you use a pail?
And was he now to confess, by granting liberty of worship to these neatherds, carders, and peasants, that the rigorous policy of "the Most Christian King" had been an entire mistake?
Of rural occupations we have the beekeepers, ploughmen, shepherds, neatherds, goatherds, and swineherds. Here is a population in which there is a large division of labor. The freemen, tenants, villeins, slaves, are laboring and deriving sustenance from arable land, meadow, common pasture, wood, and water.
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