SHEEP LOOSE IN LONDON

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 8

SHEEP LOOSE IN LONDON

AN EVENTFUL AFTERNOON. (From Our Own. CorresponGent—By Air Mail.) { LONDON, July 27. Two. AVelsli mountain sheep had a great adventure in London when they dashed out of the peaceful glades of Kensington Gardens into the roaring traffic. Passers-by were astonished when they saw the sheep—a ewe and its lamb—gallop across the pavement into the roadway, and race away among the motor cars and omnibuses. This was only the beginning of an eventful afternoon, during which the sheep crossed two busy thoroughfares; wandered through half a mile of streets; were imprisoned in a front garden; came into, the custody of the police, and were removed, in a “Black Maria. ’ ’ The sheep had been grazing quietly in Kensington Gardens, where flocks come every summer to help keep the grass down. Some say they were frightened by a dog. Others think they had a sudden desire to return to Wales, and were making their way to the station. Eventually their journey came to an end. For they were seen by Mrs Isabelle Banks, and Airs Banks is a lover of animals and a very practical woman. She drove them into the front garden, shut the. gate, and telephoned the police. “I was ordered by the police to keep watch on them,” she said afterwards. “For an hour and a half I stood there,' watching them eat the ivy and the other plants. All this time the roast lamb I was having for luncheon was getting cool, while the lamb in the garden was cooling its heels.”