. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. . ; : in , Canada horn, the owners open the doors of their sheep-cots, and the different little flocks rush outand form themselves into a great flock, cross-ing the village slowl\- under the guidance of with brass nails and filled with an ointment forthe scab, a disease that attacks the moorlandsheep sooner than others. This bo.\ hangs athis waist. \\hen the shepherd knits he sticks 17© OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Very Fine Cheviot Ram Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead the ends of his knitting needles in
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. . ; : in , Canada horn, the owners open the doors of their sheep-cots, and the different little flocks rush outand form themselves into a great flock, cross-ing the village slowl\- under the guidance of with brass nails and filled with an ointment forthe scab, a disease that attacks the moorlandsheep sooner than others. This bo.\ hangs athis waist. \\hen the shepherd knits he sticks 17© OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Very Fine Cheviot Ram Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead the ends of his knitting needles into his waist-band, like an old Englishwoman. The shep-herds costume admits of all imaginable variety,but is never in the latest fashion. Over his or-dinary clothes he invariably wears a cloak in caseof rain, though some, more effeminate, carry anumbrella slung obliquely across their backs. Nearly all the sheep havebells or rattles fastened aroundtheir necks by a leather monotonous tinkling ofthese bells produces, especiallyat starting and in returning, avery pleasant sound, percepti-ble at great distances over themoor, so that one often hearsthem when no sheep are in theneighborhood. The dog may belong to allpossible breeds except — I wasabout to say — the shepherddog, but that may be going toofar. It is usually some mongrelof medium size ; sometimes,though rarely, it has more orless the type of the shepherddog. These animals are usuallywide-awake, docile, and inde-fatigable. They
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