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... hills . No one lived on that plain but shepherds , who dwelt in low cottages thatched with heath , and watched their sheep so carefully that no lamb was ever lost , nor had one of the shepherds ever travelled beyond the foot of the hills ...
... hills . No one lived on that plain but shepherds , who dwelt in low cottages thatched with heath , and watched their sheep so carefully that no lamb was ever lost , nor had one of the shepherds ever travelled beyond the foot of the hills ...
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... hills it was a sort of comfort to him , ever since their losses began , to look at them evening and morning . Now their far - off heights were growing crimson with the setting sun , but as he looked , three creatures like sheep scoured ...
... hills it was a sort of comfort to him , ever since their losses began , to look at them evening and morning . Now their far - off heights were growing crimson with the setting sun , but as he looked , three creatures like sheep scoured ...
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... hills ; let us go and see if they will take us for sheep - boys . ' " Kind would rather have stayed and tilled his father's wheat field , hard by the cottage ; but since his eldest brother would go , he resolved to bear him company ...
... hills ; let us go and see if they will take us for sheep - boys . ' " Kind would rather have stayed and tilled his father's wheat field , hard by the cottage ; but since his eldest brother would go , he resolved to bear him company ...
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Frances Browne. down the hills , as if a thousand shepherds had been piping on their tops . Clutch and Kind had never ... hill - top , and saw a broad pasture , where violets grew thick among the grass , and thousands of snow - white ...
Frances Browne. down the hills , as if a thousand shepherds had been piping on their tops . Clutch and Kind had never ... hill - top , and saw a broad pasture , where violets grew thick among the grass , and thousands of snow - white ...
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... hills came a troop of shaggy wolves , with hair so long that their eyes could scarcely be seen . Clutch would have fled for fear , but the wolves stopped , and the old man said to him- 666 Rise , and shear - this flock of mine have too ...
... hills came a troop of shaggy wolves , with hair so long that their eyes could scarcely be seen . Clutch would have fled for fear , but the wolves stopped , and the old man said to him- 666 Rise , and shear - this flock of mine have too ...
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