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Updated: May 24, 2025
One she noticed in particular feed a little apart, having two calves near her which had just begun to nibble a little grass. Vaguely wondering still over her plight, she pictured her days of shepherding in the downs where food had often failed her, and the ewes perforce mothered another lamb. That hind's udder was full of milk: a sudden thought ran like wine through her blood.
He sits apart; He loves her yet: she will not weep, Tho' rapt in matters dark and deep He seems to slight her simple heart. "For him she plays, to him she sings Of early faith and plighted vows; She knows but matters of the house, And he, he knows a thousand things." I first met her shepherding her little flock across the ocean.
I met him at a distance from his native village, and it was only after I had known him a long time and had spent many afternoons and evenings in his company, listening to his anecdotes of his shepherding days, that I went to see his own old home for myself the village of Winterbourne Bishop already described, to find it a place after my own heart.
This was the abode of a huge monster who was then away from home shepherding his flocks. He would have nothing to do with other people, but led the life of an outlaw. He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain.
In response to enquiries, I denied that I was the owner of them; they had served my purpose, and I was content to let well alone. The blacks were very bad, and continually worrying the men we had shepherding. One of these was rather daft. One night the rams did not return. I got on their tracks the next day and brought them to camp, but there was no sign of the shepherd.
They've got a town to administer a big town that not thirty years ago was the most murderous, fanatical, rowdy dwelling of slave-traders on the West Coast of Africa. To-day, by dint of careful shepherding, they've reduced it to a city of quiet respectability, with a smaller crime rate than Birmingham; and in fact made it into a model town suitable for a story-book.
"It is a trying life, this shepherding, gentlemen," he observed; "with the chance of being speared or clubbed by the blackfellows, or stuck up by a bushranger, while one has to spend day after day without a human being to speak to, from sunrise to sunset and then to have one's only chum killed so suddenly! It is well-nigh more than I can bear."
"'Australia! retorts he; 'what would I do there? Be a shepherd, like you see in the picture, wear ribbons, and play the flute? "'There's not much of that sort of shepherding over there, says I, 'unless I've been deceived; but if Australia ain't sufficiently uncivilised for you, what about Africa?
For over two years now he had given himself to the superintendence of his estate, to county business, to the regulation of his sister's happily more prosperous affairs, to the shepherding of his two elder nephews in their respective professions and securing the two younger ones royally good times during their holidays at home.
He hadn't been at that game though for more nor two years, when a flood on the river took off half his sheep, and his old master brought him in a bill for some hundreds of pounds for stores and things my mate had got, and he wanted to be paid right off. Now, my mate couldn't pay him; so he had to give him up his sheep and go shepherding again.
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