 | Scotland - 1827 - 968 pages
...to their young. I was often deeply affected at scenes which I witnessed there. We had one тегу hard winter, so that our sheep grew lean in the spring,...ewe immediately acknowledges the relationship, and alter the ekin has wanned on it, so as to give it something of the smell of her own progeny, and it... | |
 | 1827 - 996 pages
...milk, to bring her in and put another lamb to her. This is done by putting the skin of the dead Limb upon the living one ; the ewe immediately acknowledges...after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it some thing of the smell of her own progeny, and it has sucked her two or three times, she accepts and... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...there. We had one very hard winter, so that our sheep grew lean in the spring, and the thwai tor-ill (a sort of paralytic affection) came among them, and...at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or 242 THE MIRROR. a little doubt remaining on her mind that she would fain dispel, I cannot decide ;... | |
 | James Hogg - Fiction - 1829 - 242 pages
...the mother have a sufficiency of milk, to bring her from the hill, and put another lamb to her. This is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon...at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or because a little doubt remains on her mind which she would fain dispel, I cannot decide ; but, for... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - Animals - 1840 - 236 pages
...the mother have a sufficiency of milk, to bring her from the hill, and put another lamb to her. This is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon...at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or because a little doubt remains on her mind which she would fain dispel, I cannot decide, but for a... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1866 - 168 pages
...which may have been a twin lamb, and could not therefore be so well brought up by the parent ewe. This is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon the living one, which the ewe thinks is her own offspring; for, after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it something... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Animal behavior - 1869 - 346 pages
...the mother have a sufficiency of milk, to bring her from the hill, and put another lamb to her. This is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon...at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or because a little doubt remains on her mind which she would fain dispel, I cannot decide ; but, for... | |
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I have described the process somewhere else ; — it is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon the living one ; the ewe immediately acknowledges the relationship, and after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it something of the smell of... 