It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness! — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again?” — James Hogg Copy Share Image
If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that,… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. — James Hogg Copy Share Image
It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
