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Idea of making two sheep grow where only one grew before first occurred to Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), who spent the last 30 years of his life and some $250,000 on the project. In 1886, summering with his family in Nova Scotia, Bell bought an ewe for his children to play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty...
...sheep dog one clear, shriveling-cold January night at the Home Farm outside Abbots Leigh village near Bristol. The sirens screamed at 5 o'clock, and Shepherd Mitchell was immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near a terrified ewe, who tried to shield her lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed through...
Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade...
Enclosed herein is a snapshot of a freak sheep that may be termed a "Unicorn." You will note that it has a horn on the end of its nose. This is a three-year-old ewe (female sheep), raised on the range in this district, Ely, Nev. The picture was taken in April 1936 and shows the animal after shearing. It's a freak and not a transplanted horn. Presumed the picture would be of interest to you. D. A. HUGHES...
...daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...