The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-19
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6hOIUC AMD MO OOCSESSOHC'
Some years ago owned a large flock
of sheep, and though / should hesitate
to give in full my experience as a sheep
farmer, yet there are q few episodes
in that experience which may probably
amuse and interest the boy readers of
the Communion. sOnes occurred the
secondsweek after getting my first flock
home
had bought 'Brutus," a very large
South Down buck, about~as handsome
an animal as / ever saw. He would
have wefghed alive, atleast 200 pounds,
and was as portly as a lord. 1t did me
good to look at his fleece; it wa magnlh-
cent.
I did not know when ] bought him,
that Brutus had a very sinister reputa-
ton. This I afterwards learned. He
was a dangerous CLUTTER" and had
shortly before killed two bucks, and had
nearly broken a mans legs Yet n
would never have thought it, on seeing
the beast; for Brutus had no horns and
had q most amiable expression. i led
him home myself. He seemed very do
Gle.
The same week. alsobought "C@sar."
He was a young Cotswold, valued at
twenty dollars. He had asuperb cream
white fleece, very long and thick. His
,ormer owner assured me that the wool
~ Cnsor wos tan inches in LENGTH or
ratbersdsntT {
Inousn nos yee iIily 9roW1' hs norns
were istge anu nneiy ourreu n1 "a
not SO pig ana portly as Pru.us, Du'
nA pu u pes aet nLd;na 80 tha
D%. Aeps 11u1 -
parns;esnheS GsserL oweiS IL pen u
announcer Darn, put mao npeisy ~ oome
out lnso tne M1lcn was sur.
inc srong poaro ience' ei8n'
or gen4eet IN helenS
KEW W2nlo 1gns 1neyzwers
10 meet; n1ygn Iney wsses 30.
cureiysconnnSu Al4p ueA5
rom eacn oeler q nlnIleu tSeS ol n LII
one morning 1ao les oae my nocA
ineo s sni, I;sS !, 1 honI da = ans bo,,sa whan
mg, sa stort1ad ~ au or,;nons crosh -
LoarJs mn at t5a barns T set off in
Soete - asoar+a;n H. cauaa wban on
ntsS. 5ant arash -s,,saJ nc 70 b,,rrT
naLkna 1871 Az Isl 20. = 49, ~ 81
$500 &C., y tnoo J baadlan1 tb,sor@b
~ boerJ fence af The lever and Of f
HeIav nartIv in tbe oan and oIiivered
Itbo1g5t ut fyst that ne was stunned
mereiy Rut he was dead History
had rsooated ;tsslf tbsra in nv sheen,
nard. RRr1tus had slain Cesar. and still
war-iike. he stood inside the hole and
dared me to come in,
r. took both Mr. Rean (tbe hired mani
and myself to capture-him We found
that he had broken his chain. or
wrenched the stapIe from the most. and
gof into fbe -barn-yard by bntfino n
broad hole .fbronoh the board fence
The next day. On the next day but n e
he hunted down the usefuI Mr. Bean
who had led him ont TO water-and
bruised his leg rather badly. But.
tbouoh knocked fiat. Bean had seized
the buck by one of his hind LEGS and
held fast. and in a moment or two had
reoa;ne5,b;s
IN thet nl;abt tbo +wo .va onor ha
ward and had q lively tS1ssel FOR me- mos
Tow At LENGTH Resn cot hold of tbe
nrbe, hind Loo ond iof oo Az cho;n
Sons minntes lote- he coma do,vn -
fba house SvSeei;ne BSntns before him
that ;sFha had both tba royn,s bind laos
in his hands and 40 forced the animal
to walk Iaboredly before him like :
wbealborrow. or % a. hovs o. sohool
used Fl say swan Snanis6 . The chair
was DRAGGING after.
Here's your retter-sarn himrn he
excla;med cha like Ter broke nv
lo;o 800 b5ut Wv, asn,an,s \ dange,
Of HI ~,
NJ poon ooroa ort ona COIL a.
60. - Jo,lorad che was n dannar -
Lar Gfa 49, sba uent 70 Tod tba hons
LII hn,t aon NV 0
Tmua oSEEssod - 5;sno.a 90 pr,+,.
a1aoa e tbase tn,o foIIon haroas i
piaoI " SIeSo " noioe'' /,
next pougng Jon a prompt
sIralgnt-nmoed Down. with
G EiacK lace sno sm9t nus name
nAG maj OF ms predecessors, came TO M
on MIN. his former owner told me that
he knew his name a well as any boy
n perhaps ne did; for he really would
run to you when you said John Glpin-
and shook the salt dish.
AS a stock animal ne was ranked high
pad correspondingly high price,
lmay asswel tell you what, became o
him. For a year he was monarch of my
flock, a very proud and arrogant one
He had grown. I valued him highly
livery one VINO saw hum admired him
0ut a queer 1atahty hung over my stocl
ANIMALS.
One day in October, the next fall
after we had turned the sheep into the
fields, MI. Bean came running to tn,
house.
s'There's trouble. sir. up in the uppe,
fieldl" he exclaimed. saThere's a strang,
cretter come"
Trouble. indeedi On reaching the mn
per field, there Law John Gilpin with al
four of his black legs in the air and hi
neck crooked under him, while over hi
PROSTATE body stood anothergreat, bony
but m-cond1tioned ram with norns INK
an argalis.
Without exception, this was the mos
rufhaniy-looklng brute L ever saw
creature all bone and horns, with httl
4esl ana less %o0l. S~eVerGneless' I'M
G;1nia mao ellea Ine %en-prea Jon
Onp.n 'ne very hrs' pass ne hao "ao
dt Mn.