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

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TINE HIGHLAND AND TIE LowLAND SHEEP WHO
WENT TO WAR TIE rEksr ASTON or WOLVES
La a country not 50 remote that IL cannot
A be reached by the moral Of our fable, there
had been, from time inneinonal, ieud be-
! tveen its Highland and its Lowland races
II heep, which came 10 collision when
NJ and wherever they met on the borders
their feeding grounds, which neither then
ronpectiye shepherds, nor their irrespective
q could prevent, sPPease, or put down,
In once their bloods were up. Ii was
bcking TO mutton-eating men 10 hear ol
Is perpetual petty warfare, and the runors
Z Q general rising of both Of these bellise-
mt parties, 10 bring their quarrel to gen
ral battle, and abide the issue; but this
their lords and masters would not hear of for
a moment, and contrived as much as posi-
bic to keep the rival clans apart, driving
them to higher grounds on the one side, and
lower grounds on the other, 80 as TO leave a
good broad neutral line of land between.
The main bodies OF both armies beng thus
kept encamped at such respectful distances,
the war between them was for a long time,
litrle more than all affair OF outposts, pick
ing out of pickets, and serving them ont, as
we saw, or driving them in, as men-miiitary
express il. The neutral ground was rocky
and mountainous, and pretty well covered
with forests of pine and ash and larch, and
such like woods, and was in the joint occu-
patton of eagles of large growth, and dar-
ing, audaciouslv daring characters - now
lifting lamb, and, when lamb was out OF
season, Young shepherd in his swaddling
clou,s; and Of pack of wolves. gaunt, bo-
ny, and grim, whose regulations were Just as
bad as the eagles, and both would hang them
in any court in Chrstendom. 4 nice leu
ral country this for strong headed, wrong
headed, and stupid sheep TO straggle through
when their bloods were up, 10 have a brush
with the enemy: and a nice SET Of neutral
indifferent spectators these wolves and Gag les
were Iruly, 10 stand by, and see fair play
when Greek met Greek. and came the tug
of war,
The cause OF quarrel was about as good
as these causes are even among wiser crea
lures. Born and bred in one common com-
try, il was a war OF castes or clans a feud
"a difference about blood. which was the
purest and ala intolerance to hatred Of each
others religion, though their faith was in
essentials the same, and their modes OF wor-
ship not greatly at variance. Blood-bad
blood-ill blood-and that that thought it.
self the purest, really the foulest and black
est-was at the bottom and top of this de-
sire 20 DESTROY each other. The Highland
sheep deSpised the Lowland sheep as an in
ierior race-as sleek, well-led, fine wooded,
slavish. cowsrdy, and shut up in folds and
pastures fat and warm; and not why. sim
Guy, shaggy, courageous. strong. free. and
wandering at their own wild will over noun
tains and exposed moors and rock-strewn
valleys, as hardy as the heather they roved
among. Their anmosity originated partly
IN religious prejudice. In the ear of a
Highlander it was horrible, and like bias
phemy, to mark the drawing nasal Bdo
dong of these Lowlanders which they pro
nounced Bdd, (shor and crisp as their scam,
herbage. and believed to be orthodoxical,
and the other accent TO be rreverent, indie
cent, heterodoNical, and scandalous depar.
rure from the simplicity of the natural piety
OF sheep. They would not have minded it
50 much, if they had kept their heterodoxy
10 themselves but when they forwarded a
set of sleek, meek fellows, in wool as white
as SNOW, and combed very straight, as mis-
sonarles to the heathens in the Highlands,
who dared to call their hills, which get the
hrst and last of the sun when the mists will
allow them, dark and benighted neighbor.
hood, and presumed to preach against idola-
trous bending Of the knee TO stock and stone
flesh and blood-at any rate, Highland
flesh and blood-could not bear it, would
not bear it. Besides. though fewer i'm mum.
Der, they were their masters for strength and
courage and they knew il; and SO did the
LoWlanders. who avoided them as much as
they could, as soon as they saw their mis-
sonaries sent back with broken heads and
horns.
And kept the even tenor of their way
10 themselves. But sometimes the Young
oioods OF the respective races, in their Dor
der wanderings, fell in with one another, and
Tell Out as soon as they met, Baa (shOrt) ant
Ban (long, } the old sign and countersign
soon setting them by the ears.
II was early in the day after one of thest
FOOLISH encounters. when
-"mxny q gallant gentleman
''S easpns on the ground"
tne hlghlanders having the best OF the bat
lie as usual, while the Wolves stood look
ing On, and not interfering, that the noun
ialneers were astonished to see three veneer
able Wolves, silvery white with age, emerg'
from the forest, and wend their way yer,
dellberatel y, and somewhat infmly, int
,helr camp among the hills. They coult
hardly believe their eyes that they wer'
Wolves, and thought they must be the ghost
OF old shepherds dogs, who could not res
IN their graves for
The foul deeds done in their DAYS Of nature"
the sins they had committed in their no
youth in sheep-biting Blu, then again the,
ioomed too large for the ghosts of departet
ykes. This, however, might be an exag
geraiion oil the morning mist, made to fright
tn them, 50 superstitiOusly inclined. Blu
as these venerable strangers came nearer an
nearer, they saw they were no ghosts of dogs
out verltable Wolves i'm the flesh. The
o i1 not lear them much, for they looked to
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