In Spite Of All
That You Can Do They Will Very Likely Break Through You And Make Back;
If So, Persevere As Before, And In About Ten Minutes A Single Sheep Will
Be Seen Eyeing The Opposite Bank, And Evidently Meditating An Attempt To
Gain It.
Pause a moment that you interrupt not a consummation so
devoutly to be wished; the sheep bounds forward with
Three or four jumps
into midstream, is carried down, and thence on to the opposite bank;
immediately that one sheep has entered, let one man get into the river
below them, and splash water up at them to keep them from working lower
and lower down the stream and getting into a bad place; let another be
bringing up the remainder of the mob, so that they may have come up
before the whole of the leading body are over; if this be done they will
cross in a string of their own accord, and there will be no more trouble
from the moment when the first sheep entered the water.
If the sheep are obstinate and will not take the water, it is a good
plan to haul one or two over first, pulling them through by the near
hind leg; these will often entice the others, or a few lambs will
encourage their mothers to come over to them, unless indeed they
immediately swim back to their mothers: the first was the plan we
adopted.
As I said, our sheep were got across the first two streams without much
difficulty; then they became completely silly.
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