"To raise healthy sheep one must have pure water where they can get to it whenever they like.

Give them good water, good food, and a variety of it, good quarters cool in summer, comfortable in winter, and keep them quiet, and you'll make them happy and make money on them." "I think I'd like sheep-raising," said Miss Laura; "won't you have me for your flock mistress, uncle ?" He laughed, and said he thought not, for she would cry every time any of her charge were sent to the butcher.
After this Miss Laura and I often went up to the pasture to see the sheep and the lambs.

We used to get into a shady place where they could not see us, and watch them.

One day I got a great surprise about the sheep.

I had heard so much about their meekness that I never dreamed that they would fight; but it turned out that they did, and they went about it in such a business-like way, that I could not help smiling at them.