In vain Hogg and his assistant spent the whole night in searching for their lost charge; and they were on their way home to inform their master of their loss, when they discovered a lot of lambs at the bottom of a deep ravine, and the indefatigable sirrah standing in front of them, looking round for some relief, but still true to his charge.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
The night was so dark that sirrah could not be seen, but the faithful animal had heard his master lament their absence in words which set him at once on the alert, and without more ado he had silently gone off in quest of the recreant flock.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Hogg bought sirrah of a drover for a guinea, observing, notwithstanding his dejected and forlorn appearance, a sort of sullen intelligence in his countenance.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston