One hears the expression ‘Divide the sheep from the goats’;
I think the origin is biblical, but I can’t remember, or perhaps it doesn’t
say, which of the two kinds of animal is preferable or why. Here in Greece most
shepherds / goatherds have mixed flocks, and all those I’ve spoken to about it
agree that goats are far and away more intelligent than sheep. A friend in
Germany who likes sheep has been telling me that they are not stupid, but I am
unconvinced.
Anyway, I only mention this because my attempt to intrigue
readers with that quaint device the Rolls Razor went down like a lead balloon,
so I decided today to give you another limerick. The last one was R for Rat, so
today we have S for Sheep:
Sheep live on
cold hills. Though endowed
with thick wool, it gets shorn: they say “How’d
you feel with no cardy?
Hill-top life’s hardy,
far from the madding crowd.”
with thick wool, it gets shorn: they say “How’d
you feel with no cardy?
Hill-top life’s hardy,
far from the madding crowd.”
Oh yes: you like pictures, don’t you? All right then:
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