SHEEP IN EXTREMITIES.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 36, 10 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHEEP IN EXTREMITIES.

The Geraldinecorrespondent of tho Chrietchurch Press writes : — A peculiar story comes from the back country in connection with the recent heavy fall of snow. Several men were rescuing sheep from four feet of snow on to traokß cut for that purpose at Mount Peel, when they witnessed a most unusual sight. A bare had been left on the track by a hawk, and this six or seven sheep devoured, leaving scarcely a trace of the animal behind. As an evidence of what sheep will do to maintain life, the Worth Otago Times mentions that some of the Land Company's sheep were caught in the recent snowstorm on Kakanui mountains. Before they were discovered 50 had died, and the remaining 100 had eaten every particle of wool off their bodies. The sheep could not have been shorn better. The following incident is reported liy another paper: — A sheep had been frozen to death in the bed-of the Otekaike river. It had evidently been wnlking in tho river, and had stopped for a few minutes, the water had been frozen about its feet, and the poor brute had been frozen to death on the spot. When found it w»b standing upright on all fours frozen iflst to the ground.

The average cab-horse is a tenderhearted animal. He I* 1 always ready to atop and listen to a tale of wiioa !