But beyond this there are the sheep in the pens to be attended to as the important time of Lambing approaches, and there are the horned cattle in the stalls still fattening, and leaving, as they reach maturity, for the butcher.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Shepherds, too, sometimes visit the fold very early in the morning, and in the Lambing season may be said to be about both day and night.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Crossing at length to its left bank, near an old Lambing station of Dr. Ramsay's, we further on came to a large plain with the Yarra trees of the Bogan upon its western skirts.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell