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North & South

LABOUR DAYS

THE EWE had been walking around for three hours with the nose, eyes and sometimes the tongue of a lamb poking out her tail end. It was looking less like the miracle of birth and more like a gargoyle on a Paris cathedral.

I was pacing the paddock at binocular distance, stressing like a father in the waiting room. The ewe was grazing under

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