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to labour a difficult problem, when a glance in another position would make everything perfectly plain.
To return to the shepherd.
The colouring of the old shepherd's clothes should be more or less decided by his surroundings. One would not for choice give him a scarlet plaid and a Prussian blue kilt. These colours would soon fly in the mists of early dawn, the long days of rain and storm. A shepherd's clothes would probably share the tints of the hills and of the heather—mauve, green, brown, and fawn.
