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| | | From: asheepdog (Original Message) | Sent: 3/15/2002 1:44 PM |
"All great dogs, like all great men, work not because they have to, but because they want to. Action is their chief medium of happiness" Ralph Fleesh (1910) |
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For my teaching practice I was to visit an infant school in the heart of the Lake District. I decided to plan my first lesson around sheep as many of the children leved on farms. On the day, I held up my cardboard cut-out of a sheep in front of the class. "Does anyone know what this is?" I asked. Silence. I repeated the question. Eventually a little boy at the back of the class raised his arm. "Well," he said, "there's some Swaldale in it and a bit of Blackface, but I'm not sure about the rest." extract from E.K. Yorks |
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"Owd Bob" "But should you, while wandering in the wild sheep-land about the Twin Pikes, happen on moor or in market upon a very perfect gentle knight clothed in dark grey habit, splashed here and there with rays of moon: free by right divine of the guild of gentlemen, strenuous as a prince, lithe as a rowan, graceful as a girl, with high king carriage, motions and manners of a fairy queen: should he have a noble breadth of brow, an air of still strength born of right confidence, all unassuming: last and most unfailing test of all, should you look into two snowcloud eyes, calm, wistful, inscrutable, their soft depths clouded on with eternal sadness - yearning, as it is said, for the soul that is not theirs - know then that you look upon one of the line of most illustrious sheep-dogs of the North." Extract from "Owd Bob", the Grey Dog of Kirriemuir, by Alfred Ollivant |
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