. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. sheep and goats ? I fancy it wasmuch more, and during our first day we thought of littleelse. The whole long simple business of sheep-rearing, morearchaic to-day in its pursuit than the breeding and keeping ofany other animal, is deeply interesting from many a point ofview. I am delighted to add another sheep silhouette, so tospeak, to memories I have gathered of the meek-nosed, thepassionless faces of sheep in other parts of the world. TheCaucasian sheep—like every other inh
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. sheep and goats ? I fancy it wasmuch more, and during our first day we thought of littleelse. The whole long simple business of sheep-rearing, morearchaic to-day in its pursuit than the breeding and keeping ofany other animal, is deeply interesting from many a point ofview. I am delighted to add another sheep silhouette, so tospeak, to memories I have gathered of the meek-nosed, thepassionless faces of sheep in other parts of the world. TheCaucasian sheep—like every other inhabitant, brute or human,of these mountains—abounds in character. Unlike otherEastern sheep, it is mainly a white beast, with fawn-coloured THE GEORGIAN ROAD 183 ears and fawn-coloured feet, and a light dash of freckles uponits white nose ; but beyond this pretty colouring only thebuttocks are remarkable, and these because they carry whatlook like superfluous cushions of wool, similar in shape, if Iam permitted the illustration, to the bustles of twentyyears ago, but which prove to be lumps of fat between which. VLAI)1KA\ KA/, AT THE FOOT OF THE CAUCASUS depend their short and modest tails. The rams, of whichthere are numbers, have horns that curve in double curls, andthough they are relatively small like the sheep they are beau-tiful and walk with pride among the flock, stamping their feetand barking from time to time. Deplorably mingled with the sheep are goats—goats of allsorts and styles, black, brown, white, and mottled ; goats withgreat horns sweeping upward and over their backs, or wide-spread to each side, or even malignly twisted one over will ever mak& S ^oat look a good animal. Even a kid, 184 ALL THE RUSSIAS in his moment of prettiest play, is impish as a lamb cannot knows why this is. From the first a goat has beenused as an emblem of sin—though nobody who knows goatscan understand why they should be tolerated upon the lefthand, whe
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