The uplift [serial] . n. This meansthat the Vikings of old must havetaken their cattle with them, as theIrish took their ponies. It is a very in-teresting suggestion, and a probable .one, too. There is another sugges-tion, not less i omantic—that some ofthe ships of the Spanish Aramada,which were wrecked off the Shet-lands, had Spanish cattle aboard, andthat some of these escaped to land Thirteen mingled blood of Viking and famousold Spanish cattle runs in the veinsof the stately little cattle that wefind on the top of the KingsdownHills. The origin of the Shetland sheepis not more clear than
The uplift [serial] . n. This meansthat the Vikings of old must havetaken their cattle with them, as theIrish took their ponies. It is a very in-teresting suggestion, and a probable .one, too. There is another sugges-tion, not less i omantic—that some ofthe ships of the Spanish Aramada,which were wrecked off the Shet-lands, had Spanish cattle aboard, andthat some of these escaped to land Thirteen mingled blood of Viking and famousold Spanish cattle runs in the veinsof the stately little cattle that wefind on the top of the KingsdownHills. The origin of the Shetland sheepis not more clear than is that of thecattle. If the Vikings found themin the Faroe Islands, as has beenthought, they may have found themin the Shetlands. Some authoritiesbelieve that the Vikings who fledfrom the tyrant king took sheepwith them .to the Shetlands, andthat those of to-day are descendedfrom that stock. They must havebeen there for a considerable time,or they could not have beco ne soaltered from the rest of the Scotch Girl Feeding Ponies. and lived to leave descendants. Thisis not at all unlikely, and the Shet-land cattle may be of Viking andSpanish origin, with a wonderfulplace in history. Expert judges declare that thereare in Shetland cattle certain pecu-liarities found in no other cattle savethose bred in Spain for famous breed of Spanish cattle isowned by the decendants of Colum-bus, and one wonders if these littleShetland cattle are descendants ofthose which lived in Spain when Co-lumbus was ali^e. Columbus him-self may have visited the ShetlandIsles on his voyage to Iceland, wherethe cousins of the Shetland ponieswere, and where, it is almost certain,the great traveler first heard of theexistence of the New World. Bethat as it may, it is possible that the Time is of no account to Nature,but she must have leisure for herworks, and the Shetland sheep isde-cidely one of her masterpieces in theway of fitting animal life to its sur-roundings. These she
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