Ovine scrumpers

SWALEDALES (below) are just as good scramblers as Hebridean sheep (Letters, September 28). Recently, I witnessed five hoggets, which had been fed in one field, climb onto a dry stone wall and run about 50 yards along it, dropping down into an orchard that, it being October, was liberally supplied with windfalls. Not only agile, but clever, too. David Whitaker, Edinburgh