100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE

February 25, 1922

IREMEMBER having a talk with a sheep-shearer, who made the following interesting remarks: ‘It takes a very goodtempered man to shear a sheep. You’ve got to hold them firm, yet so as not to hurt them. The place to put your knee is on its shoulder. It is only a very big or troublesome sheep that takes two men to hold it.’ He remembered seeing a young man trying to shear a sheep which plunged so violently that the shears stabbed deeply into the man’s forehead—just between his eyebrows—he had run a narrow shave of having an eye out! He also told of a sheep-owner who made a wager that his sheep should be shorn in the morning, the fleece woven into cloth, the cloth made into a suit, which he should wear by nightfall, and he won his wager.—h