Short Story: The Highland Cattle At Pulborough
The collective noun for a group of Highland cattle is a fold. The name comes from the old stone-walled shelters they were kept in overnight in their native Scotland, a practical name for a practical structure against the weather. It seems out of place here on the Pulborough floodplains. There are no highland gales to contend with, just the damp air off the River Arun.
But they’re here to graze and to keep the grasses just right for nesting birds. The name might be a remnant of a harsher place, but the animal itself is a remarkably delicate tool.
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