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Updated: June 12, 2025
Caleb Bawcombe An old shepherd's love of his home Fifty years' shepherding Bawcombe's singular appearance A tale of a titlark Caleb Bawcombe's father Father and son A grateful sportsman and Isaac Bawcombe's pension Death following death in old married couples In a village churchyard A farm-labourer's gravestone and his story
"You look bad," he said; "you must be off to the doctor." But it was five miles to the village where the doctor lived, and Bawcombe replied that he couldn't go. "I'm too bad I couldn't go, master, if you offered me money for it," he said. Then the farmer mounted his horse and went himself, and the doctor came.
"What be you wanting, Watch a drink or a swim?" the shepherd would say, and Watch, cocking up his ears, would repeat the whine. "Very well, go to the pond," Bawcombe would say, and off Watch would rush, never pausing until he got to the water, and dashing in he would swim round and round, lapping the water as he bathed.
His return resulted incidentally in other changes and migrations in the Bawcombe family. His elder brother Joseph, unmarried still although his senior by about eight years, had not got on well at home.
It happened that the sportsman was one of the trustees of an ancient charity which provided for six of the most deserving old men of the parish of Bishop; now, one of the six had recently died, and on this gentleman's recommendation Bawcombe had been elected to fill the vacant place.
An hour later the fanner appeared on the scene. "What are you doing here, shepherd?" he demanded in surprise. "Not trimming the lambs!" Bawcombe, raising himself on his elbow, replied that he was not trimming the lambs that he would trim no lambs that day. "Oh, but we must get on with the trimming!" cried the farmer.
Later on in the day he was severely blamed by a shepherd friend who said that he could easily have sold the dog to one of the drovers, who were always anxious to pick up a dog in their village, and he would have had the money to repay him for his trouble; to which Bawcombe returned, "If he wouldn't work for I that broke 'n he wouldn't work for another.
"You tie him up for a week," said the shepherd, "and treat him well till he forgets all about it, and he'll be the same as he was before you offended him. He's just like old Tom he's got his father's temper." "What's that you say?" exclaimed Bawcombe. "Be you saying that Tory's old Tom's son? I'd never have taken him if I'd known that. Tom's not pure-bred he's got retriever's blood."
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.
His first step was to send for Bawcombe, who had to get a day off and journey in the carrier's cart one market-day to Salisbury. The result was that action was taken, and in due time the case came on. Elijah Raven was in court with two or three of his friends small working farmers who had some interested motive in desiring to appear as his supporters.
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