A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler


















































































































 -   In spite of all
that you can do they will very likely break through you and make back;
if so - Page 127
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In Spite Of All That You Can Do They Will Very Likely Break Through You And Make Back; If So, Persevere As Before, And In About Ten Minutes A Single Sheep Will Be Seen Eyeing The Opposite Bank, And Evidently Meditating An Attempt To Gain It.

Pause a moment that you interrupt not a consummation so devoutly to be wished; the sheep bounds forward with

Three or four jumps into midstream, is carried down, and thence on to the opposite bank; immediately that one sheep has entered, let one man get into the river below them, and splash water up at them to keep them from working lower and lower down the stream and getting into a bad place; let another be bringing up the remainder of the mob, so that they may have come up before the whole of the leading body are over; if this be done they will cross in a string of their own accord, and there will be no more trouble from the moment when the first sheep entered the water.

If the sheep are obstinate and will not take the water, it is a good plan to haul one or two over first, pulling them through by the near hind leg; these will often entice the others, or a few lambs will encourage their mothers to come over to them, unless indeed they immediately swim back to their mothers: the first was the plan we adopted.

As I said, our sheep were got across the first two streams without much difficulty; then they became completely silly.

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