When he told his priests Thursday "to go look for the lost sheep, " he added that when they come back, they "better smell like those sheep, " Arroyo said.

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It wasn't exactly the "brawl in the hall" but a sign of how relations might be between the 38 and the one lost sheep in the future.

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He said nobody would know the amount of sheep lost until they were able to get access to them.

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Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".

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That makes Crook County (pop. 13, 500) the nation's last bellwether county. (Bellwether, literally, means the lead sheep in a flock.) The nation lost its other remaining perfect prognosticator in 1984, when Walter Mondale edged Reagan by 303 votes in Iowa's Palo Alto County.

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An emergency helpline led to hundreds of people coming forward to help find sheep and cattle lost in the snow.

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And as I've lost no sheep to these common predators, the donkeys seem to me to be doing their jobs pretty well.

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He said there was no exact figure for the number of stock lost but there would probably be thousands of lambs and sheep in England and Wales.

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Sheep farmer John Hebditch, who farms on the Levels near North Curry, said he lost everything during the flooding, with 90% of his grazing land affected.

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