. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. y SlIKPHERD AND HIS OUTFIT watched by a boy. The great flocks are in charge of a shepherd assisted by his dog, and by a helper if the sheep are very numerous. Usually a large flock belongs to different own- ers living in the same village and having a common right of pasture on the moorland. In the morning, when the time comes to lead the flock to the fields, the shepherd blows his and the shepherd sits down (still watching his sheep) to
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. y SlIKPHERD AND HIS OUTFIT watched by a boy. The great flocks are in charge of a shepherd assisted by his dog, and by a helper if the sheep are very numerous. Usually a large flock belongs to different own- ers living in the same village and having a common right of pasture on the moorland. In the morning, when the time comes to lead the flock to the fields, the shepherd blows his and the shepherd sits down (still watching his sheep) to his daily avocation, which consists in knitting coarse woolen socks. Besides his knit- ting, the shepherd carries a long crook with a tiny scoop at the end, with which he flings little pellets of earth at the sheep that may chance to stray from the main body, in order to recall them. The shepherd has also a fine horn box adorned. Sheep Ranching Scene in Alherta, Canada horn, the owners open the doors of their sheep- cots, and the different little flocks rush out and form themselves into a great flock, cross- ing the village slowly under the guidance of with brass nails and filled with an ointment for the scab, a disease that attacks the moorland sheep sooner than others. This box hangs at his waist. When the shepherd knits he sticks Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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