Among the shepherds none can pasture his flock; It closes to traffic all the roads to market.

Within two bow-shots from Beaucaire was a great forest; and here Nicolette slept in a thicket, until the herd-boys came in the morning, and pastured their cattle close to her resting-place.

[Illustration: SEED BEDS IN A FOREST NURSERY] The ranges suitable for stock grazing are used to pasture sheep, cattle, horses, hogs and goats.

Are we on the way to a parody which shall have no other excuse than the reckless search after fodder for degraded appetitesafter the pay to be earned by pasturing Circe's herd where they may defile every monument of that growing life which should have kept them human?

On the steeper slopes potatoes are still raised, although the valley itself is given up to-day almost entirely to pasture lands.

The vacant field on the other side, where the Widow Peel pastured her cow, was hot, too, but if one cut across the field and circled the back of the Widow Peel's cottage one substantially lessened the distance between oneself and the cool deliciousness of the river.

SAMPSON, Arthur W. SEE Range and pasture management.

I found a little fellow, about five or six, pasturing a lamb in the outskirts of the town, and tried, with the aid of the interpreter, to enter into conversation with him, but to no effect.

From the creek hard by came the croaking of many frogs, from the cow pasture the shrilling of the crickets.

] to take oath that they would never dwell in nor use as pasture forty stadia of their territory, nearest to Dacia.

He pastured his stock on the wild range, and lived largely by his skill with the rifle.

Of all the birds that ever yet was seen, I would not have them graze upon this green; I hope they will not, for this crop is poor, And they may pasture upon greater store:

Feed a measure of it every day to each steer; or if they have not been worked it will be sufficient to let them pasture the mast beds.

They shall pasture along all ways, Even oh all the bare hills shall they graze.

And sure there is a secret Power that reigns Here, where no trace of man the spot profanes, Nought but the chalets, [V] flat and bare, on high Suspended 'mid the quiet of the sky; Or distant herds that pasturing upward creep, 350 And, not untended, climb the dangerous steep.

'Some of these fine mornings,' as he expressed it, 'Captain Gar'ner would turn out, and find that his herd was offgone to pasture in some other field.'

It seems as every ship their sovereign knows, His awful summons they so soon obey; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea.

A seventeenth century traveler thought the Welsh mountains better than the Alps because the former would pasture goats.

We saw horses, cattle, and sheep in abundance where the Incas must have pastured their llamas and alpacas.

The horses had been put out to pasture at a farmer's up the river about twelve miles.

Conversion from tillage to pasture represents, indeed, a tendency which has been very marked in Great Britain during the last generation, and has aroused misgivings in many public-spirited observers.