Shepherd, Watch your Flock
Wanted: One shepherd. Preferably one who will not fall asleep on the job. Must also have a sheep dog with a loud bark. All those interested apply to the local flocks in Huesca. The shepherd passing with his flock outside Huesca last week, on his way to the summer pastures in the Pyrenees, was lacking in those attributes. The sheep, probably with a longing for a night on the town, decided to go off on their own while their shepherd slumbered. So, someone who was probably having trouble sleeping decided to get up and look out his window at the sleeping town and started counting sheep. Literally. Huesca police got a call at four thirty in the morning saying that a large number of sheep were travelling into town. The large number was around thirteen hundred sheep. Slowly, the police rounded up the herd and took it outside town, where they found the slumbering shepherd, probably dreaming of the sheep he thought were still surrounding him. At seven o'clock the town was cleared...