. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. BARNS WITH OPEN SHEDS. 213 the cold; and they did not prevent the ewes going out of them to lamb, or from leading their new-born lambs out at very unseasonable times, to follow the movements of the SHEEP BAKN. No female animal is more attached to her young than the ewe, but none exhibits less providence in protecting it from any danger, except by setting it an example, of running from those which terrify and demand flight,* If the ewe needed * Even then, if seriously frightened, she
. The practical shepherd: a complete treatise on the breeding, management and diseases of sheep. Sheep. BARNS WITH OPEN SHEDS. 213 the cold; and they did not prevent the ewes going out of them to lamb, or from leading their new-born lambs out at very unseasonable times, to follow the movements of the SHEEP BAKN. No female animal is more attached to her young than the ewe, but none exhibits less providence in protecting it from any danger, except by setting it an example, of running from those which terrify and demand flight,* If the ewe needed * Even then, if seriously frightened, she generally rune directly away from the danger without stopping for her lamb if it cannot keep up. She has not the remotest idea of sheltering it from cold by the warmth of her own person, or any apparent consciousness that anywhere, or urider any circumstances, it is weaker or tenderer or more exposed to danger than herself. We read anecdotes of a very contrary tenor among sentimental writers, and natxiralists who wish to enliven their narrations, or sustain some favorite theory. These anecdotes are very pretty— sometimes affecting; but unfortunately in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, untrue I Jessie, for example, expatiates on the fact that the ewe with twins does not allow one of them to suck until the other is ready to share in the meal. Now every practical sheep farmer has been a thousand times provoked by seeing a ewe, followed by one strong, fat twin lamb which she allowed to fill itself at pleasure, moving restlessly about! without waiting for, or seeming to have any care for, its mate, which was bom weaker and less able to follow—and which is being starved to death in consequence of its weakness. Even Mr. Youatt talks of special attachments between particular sheep, and of their " alternately sheltering each other from the biting blast and the suffocating ; He quotes from the Shepherd's Calender the following statement:—" When a sheep becom
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