RUS IN URBE
UNFROCKING THE SHEEP (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 17th June. Owing to the Coronation, and the military encampments in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, London’s sheep-shearing activities had to be postponed this year. But the dexterous work has been duly performed this week, by three experts from Wales, who have used the latest electrical shearers, and been not the least perturbed by the close attention of a cinema van with all the elaborate apparatus for recording the operations The scene of the latter was just by the Powder Magazine, near the Serpentine bridge, so that the Guards sentries on Magazine duty had something to amuse their ennui. The sheep were unfrocked of their winter clothing at the rate of one a minute, and though loudly protestant during the ordeal seemed much relieved afterwards in London’s heat wave. A most disappointed spectator was an elderly Welsh lady, who missed the Coronation but came to see the shearing, and discovered that the Welsh shearers could not speak Welsh.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 July 1937, Page 6
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171RUS IN URBE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 July 1937, Page 6
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