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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 259

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nows by sight the individual mem-bers of his flock, and, by going among them, cantell if any are missing. In the annual sheep-trialsin England, he has seen a collie, he says, success-fully carry out an order to select three sheep fromthe flock, and conduct them safely along a danger-ous and winding… … you must go back. a flock of eighty-two ewes and sixty-nine lambs.But old Shep can do it, for he knows every memberof the flock, though to the ordinary observer they alllook almost exactly alike. Indeed old Shep can,if his master the shepherd is not mistaken, per-form a feat more wonderful than…

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