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Rather
surprised
to
find
them
break
fence
at
this
season
,
yet
putting
it
down
instantly
to
their
great
fondness
for
ivy
in
winter
-
time
,
of
which
a
great
deal
grew
in
the
plantation
,
he
followed
through
the
hedge
.
They
were
not
in
the
plantation
.
He
called
again
:
the
valleys
and
farthest
hills
resounded
as
when
the
sailors
invoked
the
lost
Hylas
on
the
Mysian
shore
;
but
no
sheep
.
He
passed
through
the
trees
and
along
the
ridge
of
the
hill
.
On
the
extreme
summit
,
where
the
ends
of
the
two
converging
hedges
of
which
we
have
spoken
were
stopped
short
by
meeting
the
brow
of
the
chalk
-
pit
,
he
saw
the
younger
dog
standing
against
the
sky
—
dark
and
motionless
as
Napoleon
at
St
.
Helena
.
A
horrible
conviction
darted
through
Oak
.
With
a
sensation
of
bodily
faintness
he
advanced
:
at
one
point
the
rails
were
broken
through
,
and
there
he
saw
the
footprints
of
his
ewes
.
The
dog
came
up
,
licked
his
hand
,
and
made
signs
implying
that
he
expected
some
great
reward
for
signal
services
rendered
.
Oak
looked
over
the
precipice
.
The
ewes
lay
dead
and
dying
at
its
foot
—
a
heap
of
two
hundred
mangled
carcasses
,
representing
in
their
condition
just
now
at
least
two
hundred
more
.
Oak
was
an
intensely
humane
man
:
indeed
,
his
humanity
often
tore
in
pieces
any
politic
intentions
of
his
which
bordered
on
strategy
,
and
carried
him
on
as
by
gravitation
.
A
shadow
in
his
life
had
always
been
that
his
flock
ended
in
mutton
—
that
a
day
came
and
found
every
shepherd
an
arrant
traitor
to
his
defenseless
sheep
.
His
first
feeling
now
was
one
of
pity
for
the
untimely
fate
of
these
gentle
ewes
and
their
unborn
lambs
.
It
was
a
second
to
remember
another
phase
of
the
matter
.
The
sheep
were
not
insured
.
All
the
savings
of
a
frugal
life
had
been
dispersed
at
a
blow
;
his
hopes
of
being
an
independent
farmer
were
laid
low
—
possibly
for
ever
.
Gabriel
’
s
energies
,
patience
,
and
industry
had
been
so
severely
taxed
during
the
years
of
his
life
between
eighteen
and
eight
-
and
-
twenty
,
to
reach
his
present
stage
of
progress
that
no
more
seemed
to
be
left
in
him
.
He
leant
down
upon
a
rail
,
and
covered
his
face
with
his
hands
.
Stupors
,
however
,
do
not
last
for
ever
,
and
Farmer
Oak
recovered
from
his
.
It
was
as
remarkable
as
it
was
characteristic
that
the
one
sentence
he
uttered
was
in
thankfulness
:
—
"
Thank
God
I
am
not
married
:
what
would
she
have
done
in
the
poverty
now
coming
upon
me
!
"
Oak
raised
his
head
,
and
wondering
what
he
could
do
,
listlessly
surveyed
the
scene
.
By
the
outer
margin
of
the
Pit
was
an
oval
pond
,
and
over
it
hung
the
attenuated
skeleton
of
a
chrome
-
yellow
moon
which
had
only
a
few
days
to
last
—
the
morning
star
dogging
her
on
the
left
hand
.
The
pool
glittered
like
a
dead
man
’
s
eye
,
and
as
the
world
awoke
a
breeze
blew
,
shaking
and
elongating
the
reflection
of
the
moon
without
breaking
it
,
and
turning
the
image
of
the
star
to
a
phosphoric
streak
upon
the
water
.
All
this
Oak
saw
and
remembered
As
far
as
could
be
learnt
it
appeared
that
the
poor
young
dog
,
still
under
the
impression
that
since
he
was
kept
for
running
after
sheep
,
the
more
he
ran
after
them
the
better
,
had
at
the
end
of
his
meal
off
the
dead
lamb
,
which
may
have
given
him
additional
energy
and
spirits
,
collected
all
the
ewes
into
a
corner
,
driven
the
timid
creatures
through
the
hedge
,
across
the
upper
field
,
and
by
main
force
of
worrying
had
given
them
momentum
enough
to
break
down
a
portion
of
the
rotten
railing
,
and
so
hurled
them
over
the
edge
.
George
’
s
son
had
done
his
work
so
thoroughly
that
he
was
considered
too
good
a
workman
to
live
,
and
was
,
in
fact
,
taken
and
tragically
shot
at
twelve
o
’
clock
that
same
day
—
another
instance
of
the
untoward
fate
which
so
often
attends
dogs
and
other
philosophers
who
follow
out
a
train
of
reasoning
to
its
logical
conclusion
,
and
attempt
perfectly
consistent
conduct
in
a
world
made
up
so
largely
of
compromise
.
Gabriel
’
s
farm
had
been
stocked
by
a
dealer
—
on
the
strength
of
Oak
’
s
promising
look
and
character
—
who
was
receiving
a
percentage
from
the
farmer
till
such
time
as
the
advance
should
be
cleared
off
.
Oak
found
that
the
value
of
stock
,
plant
,
and
implements
which
were
really
his
own
would
be
about
sufficient
to
pay
his
debts
,
leaving
himself
a
free
man
with
the
clothes
he
stood
up
in
,
and
nothing
more
.
