The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-17

came mol alone; lOr ne was accompanies
by from five to six hundred followers; SOM
as shy, sly, and unhandsOme as himself
Qhese were, doubtless, specimens of the Al
pine sheep they had never heard Of, am
they did not admire tho breed) but tn,
greater number Of this gathering of man,
clans were fine, strappins fellows. fit fo
anything
"The finest rams, sir. that were ever fed on hay
or grass, gorse, and green things! The
ewes admired them vastly; and there wa.
not little coquetting among some of The
pretty spinsters Of the flock as they looked
upon these gallants. But they came to
hate, and not to love, and paid little atten.
ton to the fair. After short parley with
our simple friends, they took an affectionate
farewell Of their families, and fell in, and
the seer led them that night upon the enemy.
Not to be tedious. an hour before day, to
the inspiring cry of death to the Low.
landers' the onslaught was made, while
the foe were in their beds, if not their bed
gowns, they were 50 taken BY surprise.
The battle was hot and bloody, and many
brave fellows fell on both sides, but most on
the Lowland side, they We're 50 umprepared ::
but they fought CALAMITY, and gave no quar-.
ter, and asked for none Victory, in no
long time, proclaimed that the hardest, not
the most numerous, host had won the night
Tor it was not day; and such of the Low.
landers as had not fallen, fled. The
Wolves looked we'll after the wounded a.
they said they would. No sooner was a
ram on his back, toes upwards, than two of
them seized him by the shoulders, and drew
him of the ground at a gallop, that his fall
might not disPirit his brothers in arms. If
he was only wounded, away with him to the
hospital in the woods at once, where the
skilled in healing would wait upon him
and if they could not give him another horn.
amputated the stump. They looked not af
ter the enemy only, they were as attentive
to their friends, bearing, them, nay, tearing
them of the field as well, before the fight or
the life was half out of them. The last
who fell, was the leader Of the Highlanders.
wounded in front, honorably, by a s,ou,
Lowland horn. The skilled in the healing
art-as scamping, ramping, ratfish set as
ever danced polka, or chanted i'm chorus
a niger melody in the dissecting room Of
Guy s-ran up TO his assistance but IN
fortunately, not fast enough to hide him from
the garsh eye Of his gallan, friends, who
running up first, found the grey seer wound
ed TO the death, with his wooden waistcoa,.
if We may so call ii, ripped open from top
to bottom. They could not believe their
eyes when they saw what they saw-the
surgeons could and wished they had not
been called in at that autopsy. 1t was II
wolf in sleeps clothing-the Rambassador
The Hghlanders blated out I'VE are be-
trayed Wolves are among us in disguise ,
Save yourselves" A panic seized the con-
querors. and they fled, leaving the field in
possession Of the Wolves--just what they
wanted. The day was dawning, but they
need not hurry themselves; 80, calling a
camp-council, they soon settled what was to
be done with the killed and wounded; thew
ate the killed at once, and carried of the
wounded to their dens in the forest, to be
killed as they were wanted during the win
ter, and there was no more scratching up the
ground for lichens and frost-hitten acorns
while there was any mutton in the larder.
And thus ended the irreconciable antpa
thy of the Highland and the Lowland sheep,
who went 10 war, at the instigatiOn OF
Wolves. Having found, day too late,
that both had been made dupes by the de-
signing, to serve their own turns, they soon
agreed to live in amity with each other
make solemn league and covenant agains;
the Wolves only, as the only infdels-ani
sink their own small religious differences as
nOn-essential: for, after all, the learned doc
tors among them discovered that their ,e-
nets We're the same and whether they pro-
noumced Baa short or Baa long was mat
ter Of indifference, even their shepherds said
If they meant it not irreverently.-Dous e.
las Jerolfs Magazine.