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Shepherd
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Shepherd
Corin
the faithful shepherdess; called “the Virgin of the Grove.” [Br. Lit.: “The Faithful Shepherdess” in Brewer Handbook, 234]
Daphnis
guards sheep; creator of bucolic poetry. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 75]
Jabal
father of herdsmen. [O.T.: Genesis 4:20]
Jesus Christ
the Good Shepherd. [NJ.: John 10:11 –14]
Little Bo-peep
young shepherdess; searches everywhere for lost flock. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 93]
Little Boy Blue
asleep while his sheep are in the field. [Nurs. Rhyme: Baring-Gould, 46]


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Contracted to work as sheepherders on ranches in northern Nevada and Idaho, by 1910 they had spread into all the open-range areas of the West.
Those lessons would now prove valuable as Jay struck up a conversation with the sheepherder, Gilberto, who hailed from southern Mexico.
These excessive comfortable boots were first made for the sheepherders of the farming domains of Australia and then they were used by aviators during the war.
 
 
 
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