Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses." The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool." Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain. [4]
Ted wagers the entire year's heating allowance for the parochial house on the King of the Sheep competition, placing his bet on Chris, a sheep that has won the competition several times and is considered a certainty to triumph again. Unfortunately, Chris has heard rumours about a sheep-eating beast and is not feeling at all himself.
The Icelandic [a] is the Icelandic breed of domestic sheep.It belongs to the Northern European Short-tailed group of sheep, and is larger than most breeds in that group.. It is generally short-legged and stocky, slender and light-boned, and usually horned, although polled and polycerate animals can occur; there is a polled strain, the Kleifa.
[11] [8] Entitled The Misadventures of Chris the Sheep, the story offered young readers a possible explanation for why he grew so big. The book was an effort "to educate children about animal welfare" and proceeds from its sale went to help the RSPCA in the ACT to continue its work protecting, rescuing, caring and advocating for animals in need.
The character of threads spun from a mixture of sheep's wool with other fibres is determined by the majority; if only a minority of the fibre is sheep's wool it is not considered to be wool. [8] Nonetheless, a mixture of any of these materials with linen is Rabbinically forbidden because of the prohibition on appearing as if you are breaking a ...
Short-tailed sheep were gradually displaced by long-tailed types, leaving short-tailed sheep restricted to the less accessible areas. [3] These included the Scottish Dunface , which until the late eighteenth century was the main sheep type throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland , including Orkney and Shetland . [ 4 ]
A photo of this sculpture is on page 6 of the booklet The Cotswold Sheep. [6] The resemblance to modern Cotswold sheep is striking. Some authorities claim (Elwes, 1893) the Cotswold breed was already in the Cotswold Hills when the Romans got there circa 54 B.C. [ citation needed ] Others believe that the Cotswold descended from the breeding of ...
A sheep that acts like a sheep dog. Puzzle: Donkey The Chronicles of Narnia: C. S. Lewis: Rudolph: Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Robert L. May: A reindeer originally from the 1939 story 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer', later adapted to a 1949 song, a 1964 television special, and various derivative works. Woolly Sheep When Sheep Can ...