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Two of Miss Allerton's, one of old Pearson's of the Cat Walk, and one of Mrs. Moulton's. Four in all during three nights. No trace is left of them at all, and the countryside is buzzing with rumours of gipsies and of sheep-stealers. But there is something more serious than that. Young Armitage has disappeared also.
Yet when he does engage in argument, he drives things home with very telling force, especially when writing on debatable points. As we drove along the desert, Mr. Muir pointed to a lofty plateau toward which we were tending, "Robbers' Roost," where sheep-stealers hie themselves, commanding the view for hundreds of miles in every direction.
'Dim all these foot people! exclaimed Mr. Bragg, in well-feigned disgust, as he came in view, and found all the Swillingford snobs, all the tinkers and tailors, and cobblers and poachers, and sheep-stealers, all the scowling, rotten-fustianed, baggy-pocketed scamps of the country ranged round the cover, some with dogs, some with guns, some with snares, and all with sticks or staffs.
There's yer sheep-stealers, sheriff, them ornery, white-livered, blood-suckin' " "I don't know anything about that, Martin," snapped the sheriff. "All I know is, you got to come along with me, peaceable or otherwise, and I guess if you're half as smart as I think you are, you won't come otherwise. Here! Don't go back in that house, Hawk." "Well, I got to tell my daughter " "We'll tell her.
We find it recorded about 1805, however, that "the Thrapston Association for the Prevention of Felons in Northamptonshire have provided and trained a Bloodhound for the detection of sheep-stealers."
In his Shepherd's Calendar Hogg tells several tales of dogs owned by sheep-stealers, to which he says he cannot attach credit "without believing the animals to have been devils incarnate, come to the earth for the destruction of both the souls and bodies of men."
'Pray how many sheep-stealers did you convict? and how did you punish them? When are you to be cantoned in better habitations? The air grows cold, and the ground damp. Longer stay in the camp cannot be without much danger to the health of the common men, if even the officers can escape. 'You see that Dr.
We were, however, not so badly off as some of the poor prisoners sheep-stealers, footpads, vagrom men and women, and the like, or even as some of the poor Debtors many of whom lay here incarcerate years after they had discharged the Demands of their Creditors against them, and only because they could not pay their Fees.
Meanwhile our shepherd bore a sharp bayonet without a crook, and I felt myself a peer of Ulysses and Rob Roy, those sheep-stealers of less elevated aims, when I met in my daily rides these wandering trophies of our wider wanderings. Up the St. John's There was not much stirring in the Department of the South early in 1863, and the St. Mary's expedition had afforded a new sensation.
What can be more deserving of our best efforts for relief than a country gentleman like yourself, we'll say, of a nominal L5,000 a-year, compelled to keep up an establishment, pay for his fox- hounds, support the whole population by contributions to the poor-rates, support the whole church by tithes; all justice, jails, and prosecutions of the county-rates; all thoroughfares by the highway-rates; ground down by mortgages, Jews, or jointures; having to provide for younger children; enormous expenses for cutting his woods, manuring his model farm, and fattening huge oxen till every pound of flesh costs him five pounds sterling in oil-cake; and then the lawsuits necessary to protect his rights, plundered on all hands by poachers, sheep-stealers, dog- stealers, churchwardens, overseers, gardeners, gamekeepers, and that necessary rascal, his steward.
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