RESCUE OF SHEEP
DARING, INGENIOUS SCHEME. A sheep at Highton, near Blackburn, England, recently afforded two men the opportunity of a wonderful display of ingenuity and daring in getting it out cjf trouble For several days the sheep had been missing. It was found planted on an almost inaccessible ledge of a disused quarrv, half-way up the perpendicular wall of rock and 70ft. from its foot. Two ladders joined together failed by 7ft. to reach it, and two men, Holroyd and Bradley, then took a hand. Mr. Holroyd, mounting the ladders, got a foothold on a narrow ledge 6ft. below the frightefied sheep. Mr. Bradley followed Mr. Holyroyd up the ladders, and offered his shoulder, on which his friend could rest his foot. From this perilous foothold Mr. Holroyd, by means of cracks in the rock’s surface, scrambled up to the sheep. There was considerable danger that the sheep in its fright might upset its rescuer, but the man contrived to tempt it within reach, and then bound its legs. Then, with another rope, he flung a loop over a tree putting out above, and with this as a pulley, the sheep was lowered to safety.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 6
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