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glove makers. The ibex belongs to the Carpathians, the
Pyrenees, and the Savoy Alps, though it is now but rarely
found in places where it was once abundant.
The Intellig. “tt. W. H. G. Kingston tells an interesting
ence of the story of a ewe, bred in the neighbourhood of
Sheep. Edinburgh who was driven into Perthshire, a
distance of upwards of a hundred miles, to a place where
she became the mother of a lamb. Not liking her new
quarters, she evidently determined to revisit the old, and set
off with that purpose, taking her lamb with her. Arrived at
Stirling she found the place alive with the excitement of an
annual fair. Not deeming it prudent to increase the excite-
ment she rested on the north side of the town throughout
the day, where she was noticed by many people, but molested
by none. Early the following morning she crossed the town
and proceeded on her journey. Arrived at the toll bar of
St. Ninians, she was stopped by the toll keeper who supposed
her to be a stray sheep. Unable to get through the gate,
she tumed back, made a circuitous detour and reached her
old home after a journey of nine days. Her former owner
rewarded her by repurchasing her and allowing her to remain
on his farm until her death, which occurred at the mature age
of seventeen years. The sense of locality noticed in the cat,
the dog, the horse, and other animals is here seen to be
characteristic of the sheep. Mr. Kingston tells another story
of a ewe who, unable to extricate a lamb which had become
entangled in a hedge, made her way through several hedges
into a neighbouring field and fetched a ram to its assistance,
thus effecting its liberation. Sheep have also been known to
seek and secure the assistance of cattle when in difficulty.
Sheep and Haydn the composer tells a pretty story of the
Music. power of music over the mountain sheep in the
neighbourhood of Lago Maggiore in Lombardy. “Having
reached the middle of the ascent by daybreak,” he says, “we
stopped to contemplate the Borromean Isles, which were