But sheep, cattle, grain, and fruit raising are the chief industries, as they require less skill and care, while the profits thus far have been greater.

The sub-species auduboni is the easternmost member of the American sheep family, while the sheep of Chihuahua and of Lower California are the most southern now known.

Sheep were sacred to Kneph, as well as the asp.

It is no exaggeration to say, therefore, that the sheep in this region are the enemies of every living thing.

SHEEP, in the spiritual world, are the representative forms of the state of innocence and peace of the inhabitants, 75.

"They say that from the 49th parallel to the headwaters of the Saskatchewan River, sheep are larger than those in the Selkirks and coast ranges; and also that as they go north of the Saskatchewan the sheep become smaller.

The sheep are there, but no longer lean; no more the ling-thatched hut, but prosperous farms backed by thrifty groves, with hollyhock and marigold in the dooryards, heaps of gray marl in the fields, tiny rivulets of water singing the doom of the heath in the sand; for where it comes the heather moves out.

Sheep are the most facile and fertile source of nett income on the estate.

" "These sheep are a long way from the house," said Miss Laura; "don't the dogs that you were telling me about attack them?"

[Illustration: "These sheep had become as wild as deer"] X CHANGE OF MASTERS

Gallois, "I have mosh regret, but your sheep is bon prize.

Those sheep were as many thorns in our flesh that day we made off in the deep woods from Lake Champlain.

But this Sheep was no fool.

The sheep were the only animals on the island, although there were several sorts of birds.

[Footnote G: It may be proper to inform some readers, that a sheep-fold in these mountains is an unroofed building of stone walls, with different divisions.

Mr. Hofer said: "In old times it was sometimes possible to get a 'stand' on sheep, and, in my opinion, sheep often, even to-day, are the least suspicious of all the mountain animals.

Equally necessary is it to break him in to the knowledge that sheep and lambs are not game to be chased, and that rabbits and hares are to be discriminated from feathered game.

The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.

The "nibbling sheep" has ever been a favourite of the poets, and has supplied them with figures and similes without end.

The mountain sheep is an inhabitant of western America, and the books tell us that it inhabits the Rocky Mountains from southern California to Alaska.

Instantly the black sheep became a woman with a drugget coat wrapt round her head.

The wild sheep which Lippinus there kept in his game preserves were probably the mouflon which are still hunted in Sardinia and Corsica, though they may have been the Phrygian wild sheep (Aegoceros argali) which Varro mentions in Book II.

Like others of our ungulates, wild sheep are great frequenters of "licks"places where the soil has been more or less impregnated with saline solutions.

The mountain sheep were nineteen in number, for the most part does and yearlings with a couple of three-year-old rams, but not a single big fellowfor the big fellows at this season are off by themselves, singly or in little bunches, high up in the mountains.

It has recently been customary among some authorities, especially the English hunters and naturalists who have written of the Asiatic sheep, to speak as if sheep were naturally creatures of the plains rather than mountain climbers.