. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. for the commonest stockings and other equallycoarse woolen textures. This sheep inhabits type the moorland sheep of the province ofDrent in the Low Countries. THK SHEEP 169 In this province sheep are kept in flocks,varying in number from a himdred to a thou-sand. In the peat districts there are flocks ofsometimes not more than twenty, which are the shepherd, who, as they reach the opencountry, points out to his dog the direction hewishes taken. When the pasture is reached theflock disperses among the gorse and heather,. WvoMiN
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. for the commonest stockings and other equallycoarse woolen textures. This sheep inhabits type the moorland sheep of the province ofDrent in the Low Countries. THK SHEEP 169 In this province sheep are kept in flocks,varying in number from a himdred to a thou-sand. In the peat districts there are flocks ofsometimes not more than twenty, which are the shepherd, who, as they reach the opencountry, points out to his dog the direction hewishes taken. When the pasture is reached theflock disperses among the gorse and heather,. WvoMiNt; Sheihkki) and his Outfit watched by a boy. The great flocks are incharge of a shepherd assisted by his dog, andby a helper if the sheep are very a large flock belongs to different own-ers living in the same village and having acommon right of pasture on the moorland. In the morning, when the time comes to leadthe flock to the fields, the shepherd blows his and the shepherd sits down (still watching hissheep) to his daily avocation, which consists inknitting coarse woolen socks. Besides his knit-ting, the shepherd carries a long crook with atiny scoop at the end, with which he flings littlepellets of earth at the sheep that may chance tostray from the main body, in order to recall shepherd has also a fine horn box adorned
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