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A 1903 magazine article by William T. Palmer describing the annual cycle of mountain sheep-farming in the English Lake District fells of Westmoreland and Cumberland. It covers the changes in sheep breeds and enclosure, sheep dogs and whistle commands, lambing, sheep washing, shearing and sports, mist and snowstorm dangers, rescues of buried sheep, wintering of lambs, and fox-hunting. Weaving is not discussed, and wool appears only as the sheep's fleece.