"You killed two black sheep!" says another.

I have frequently seen tame sheep in mountains jump upon a sloping rock-surface, hold on tremulously a few seconds, and fall back baffled and irresolute.

Here is a specimen: The woman: "When it thunders and the sky is overcast, Drive home the sheep, O watchful shepherd.

Destitute himself of any knowledge of or sympathy for Gospel preaching, he resented this attempt to feed "the hungry sheep" of his parish.

My new guardian, as I shall call the man with whom I was left, put me into the business of tending sheep, immediately after I was left with him.

May He not fulfil His own words to them, and go forth and seek such souls, and lay them on His shoulder, and bring them home; saying to His Church on earth, and to His Church in heaven, "Rejoice with Me: for I have found my sheep which was lost?"

Having no hop pillow, he would count sheep One sheep going over the fence, two sheep, threeHow tired he was!

It is the very reflex pleasure that distinguishes the tranquillity of a thinking being from that of a shepherd,a modern one I would be understood to mean,a Damoetas; one that keeps other people's sheep.

" The man: "When it thunders, and the sky is overcast, We will bring home the sheep.

If a father has stolen a sheep, the son will give evidence against him.

how, "being wearied with watching the gambolling sheep, he laid himself down in the meadow to sleep, and never awoke till a blue-bottle fly, who buzzing about so tickled his eye that sleep fled away.

" During the night he took away the sheep.

In the summer, the Rev. Mr. MURRAY leaves his sheep, to shoot deer by torchlight in the Adirondacks.

That time was Laban gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away the idols of her father.

" He bought a sheep, which he killed; then he went to the two birds and threw them a part of it.

Little Bo-Peep has lost his sheep, And don't know where to find them.

I said to Davidson, over there in Hoytville, 'If I thought you would herd my sheep and lambs and calves together, and take them one by one in sight of the rest, and stick your knife into them, or stun them, and have the others lowing, and bleating, and crying in their misery, this is the last consignment you would ever get from me.'

What would you say of a shepherd who was so merciful to the wolves that he let them eat his sheep?

"To raise healthy sheep one must have pure water where they can get to it whenever they like.

And I've got to love you, so I thought it would be a good plan to send your sheep back again.'

They carried sheep there."

'Do this: how can we give to you,' They cried, 'what to the poor is due?' 50 VI "I sold a sheep, as they had said, And bought my little children bread, And they were healthy with their food; For meit never did me good.

Many passages in holy writ enable us to appreciate the pastoral riches of the first eastern nations; and we can form an idea of the number of their flocks, when we read that Jacob gave the children of Hamor a hundred sheep for the price of a field, and that the king of Israel received a hundred thousand every year from the king of Moab, his tributary, and a like number of rams covered with their fleece.

After a time the dogs got the sheep into a heap, and the young girl rode round them; but something still seemed to be wrong, for she got down, and, leaving the horse quite free, made her way into the flock.

The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee; therefore, thou art a sheep.