"He was scarcely then a year old, and……" — James Hogg
"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 with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions."
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James Hogg
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6 Quotes by James Hogg
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It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses…
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A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one.…
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The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds…
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He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just…
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Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
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