ON THE RUN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

ON THE RUN.

The manager of a big Australian sheep ranch engaged a discharged sailor to do farm work . H,o was put :n charge of a large flock of sheep. "Now, all you've got to do,'' explained the manager, "is to keep then on the run." A run is a large stretch of bush-land enclosed by a Fence, and sheep liavo many ingenious method-! of escaping from their own to neighbouring runs and so getting mixed up with othf flocks. At tiie end of a cocp'.e of hours the manager rode up again—the air w<s thick with dust as though a thousand head of cattle had passed bv. At last he distinguished the form of his new shepherd prone upon the ground. Surrounding hini were the sheep, a pitiful, huddled mass, bloating plaintively, with considerably more than a week's condition lost. "What the diek.ms have you been doing to those sheep?"' shrieked the almost frantic manager. The ex-sailor manage dto gasp out. "'"Well, sir, I've done my \ou told nu' to keep them on the run, and so I limited them up and down, and round, and round—and now- I'm just dead bent myself."