KEEPING THEM ON THE RUN.
the uianagrr of a big Australian sheep ranch engaged a discharged sailor I" do l irriu work, lie ivas put in charge ol a large llock ot sheep. "Now, all you've got to do," ex J plained the manager, "'is to keep them on the run."
. A run a large stretch of bush-laml inclosed by a fence, and sheep have many ingenious methods of escaping from their own (o neighbouring runs! and so getting mixed up with other nocks.
At the Olid «l' 11 couple of hours the manager rode up again-the air was thick With dust, a* tJiougJi a thousand head of cattle had passed bv. At last he distinguished t'lio form of his nenv shepherd— a. collapsed heap prone upon the ground. Surrounding hnn were the sheep, a pitiful, huddled mass, bloating plainlive.lv, with considerably more than a week's condition lost.
[ "What the dickens have you been (loiiift to the sheep?" shrieked tile almost frantic manager. The ex-sailor Managed to gasp out: "Well. sir. I've done my best. You told me to keep them on Ihe run, and so I hunted them up and down, an I round—and now I'm just dead beat myself!'' . We do not record (he manager' R re--I'^
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 123, 15 May 1908, Page 4
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209KEEPING THEM ON THE RUN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 123, 15 May 1908, Page 4
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