Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellowstone are more than 20,000 elk, 2,000 deer, over 800 buffalo, 500 moose, 600 big horn sheep, more than 400 antelope, hundreds of bears, and other animals without number...
...letter to his son: "I have long concluded. . . that these men are the most ignorant men in the whole world; more ignorant - because they are viciously ignorant-than the Negro boys who act as caddies at Pinehurst; more ignorant than the inmates of Morganton Asylum; more ignorant than sheep or rabbits or idiots...
...posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure it is he who is responsible, let alone how to make him listen to reason. Do not read this book tonight if you must catch an early train...
...bishop, according to an almost universal Christian conception, is a shepherd; those who recognize his voice are his sheep. A shepherd takes care of his sheep. A bishop takes care of the faithful in his diocese. He guards particularly their spiritual welfare. Their souls may be said to be in his custody...
...book written for the headier, readier, unsteadier sheep at the intellectual outskirts of the Roman fold, False Prophets will be found strong tonic by the sheep of other folds. For the ranging wolves of Agnosticism it will afford mettlesome opposition...