THOUGH THE LAMBING SEASON IN THIS COUNTRY usually commences in March, under the artificial system, so much pursued now to please the appetite of luxury, lambs can be procured at all seasons.

Can one see a field of wheat gathered into sheaves without thinking of the dream of Joseph, or be around a farm at lambing time without smiling to recall the cunning of Jacob?

But who’d think to see you now dining in state With a lord and the devil knows who, You were flashing your dover, six short months ago, In a lambing camp on the Barcoo.

The noble art of lambing down they know in all its beauty,

I’ve coasted on the Barwon—low down the Darling, too, I’ve been on the Murrumbidgee, and out on the Paroo; I’ve been on all the diggings, boys, from famous Ballarat; I’ve loafed upon the Lachlan and fossicked Lambing Flat.

He drove about the country with Yearp seeing the sick animals, the ewes at lambing time and the cows at their calving.

Lambing time, calving time, cross-ploughing and harrowing, washing and shearing time, time for hoeing; hay time and harvest.

They were Herdwicks, a small, hardy breed that best withstands the rain and snow that sweep the high fells in the lambing season.

Perhaps the hardest thing was that the shortage was small; if the next lambing season were good, he could pay.

"He has paid a high price to help a good object, but I think we all hope the next lambing season will give him his money back.

No clever head nor great in wit, maybebut she had two lambing ewes with some of her kinsfolk, and brought them down.

And now they moved into the new building, and the animals had the turf hut to themselves, only a lambing ewe was left with Cow, lest she should feel lonely.

'Tis but this summer and a bit of a way to next winter, and you've the lambing season once more, and three times as many again.

I had to get up early that morning; for it was just the first flush of the lambing, and my father and I were out on the moors as soon as it was fairly light.

SEE Kempinski, Leo A. LAMB, HAROLD.

Harold Lamb (A); 4Mar57; R187652.

LAMB, KATHARINE.

Katharine Lamb (C); 2Feb59; R230431.

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Shepherds, too, sometimes visit the fold very early in the morning, and in the lambing season may be said to be about both day and night.

But beyond this there are the sheep in the pens to be attended to as the important time of lambing approaches, and there are the horned cattle in the stalls still fattening, and leaving, as they reach maturity, for the butcher.

The sheep are all folded on turnips or grass fields, except the breeding ewes in the lambing season.