"Follow the Leader."
Seldom has a simple story been told in more touching language than the account given by the Toronto Globe of a lamentable accident which lately befel a flock of sheep when passing over a bridge in Upper Canada. " There is," says the Globe, " a covered bridge at Peoria 500 feet above high-water mark. A drover recently attempted to drive 1000 sheep across it. When about half way over, the bell-wether noticed an open window, and, recognising his destiny, made a strike for glory and the grave. When he reached the sunlight he at once appreciated his critical situation, and with a leg stretched towards each cardinal point of the compass, he uttered a plaintive ' Ma-a !' and descended to his fate. The next sheep, and the next followed, imitating the gesture and the remark of the leader. For hours it rained sheep. The erewhile placid stream was incarnadine with the life-blood of moribund mutton, and not until the brief tail of the last sheep, as it disappeared through the window, waved adieu to the wicked world, did this movement
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 174, 11 March 1873, Page 7
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