. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. MIXING UP WITH THE ^PUSH. ciently able-bodied to follow his present occupation ofseparating the sheep from the goats. For this curi-ous individual will not follow either of his co-partnersunless the other is along. Bill is an immense, white Cotswold sheep, weigh-ing about 200 pounds, and of very forbidding visage 115 116 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY and haughty demeanor. No liberties may be taken withhis dignityship, and the slickest oon man of them allcould make no headway with Bill, for nothing could
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. MIXING UP WITH THE ^PUSH. ciently able-bodied to follow his present occupation ofseparating the sheep from the goats. For this curi-ous individual will not follow either of his co-partnersunless the other is along. Bill is an immense, white Cotswold sheep, weigh-ing about 200 pounds, and of very forbidding visage 115 116 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY and haughty demeanor. No liberties may be taken withhis dignityship, and the slickest oon man of them allcould make no headway with Bill, for nothing could in-duce him to acknowledge any friend from the coun-try, however winning, for he will not make friendswith any one. It is his duty to assist his masters in. ATTENDING TO HIS AFFAIRS. loading and unloading sheep by leading them from andto the pens and freight cars. This one thing he does,and does it well, and shows the value of soon as his work of guiding to a car is done, slyly slips to one side, and steps down and out;no danger of his being carried away or getting on tlie OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS 117 wrong car—no indeed I Bill is too sharp for that. When he has a drove to deploy from the car hemarches in among them, mixes up with the push afew minutes, just to calm their fears, and then trotsaway, the gang most obediently following in his doesnt mind water, and thougjj most sheep are asaverse to aqua pura as a Kentucky colonel, Bill makessmall account of that, but dashes through the puddlesand, willy-nilly, the rest must take their at the pen, he leaves them and goes on attendingto his affairs. Sometimes a fresh urchin or two whohave not tested Bills temper will try sooie funny busi-ness
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