Alright, you challengers great and far!  This one is OFFICIAL!!

I have been requested by the Gaelic Goddess herself to initiate the inimitable Mudcat's
SONG CHALLENGE 51!! So here's a tale of great woe, great mystery, far away magic places, and all the elements of a truly great Tragic Song.  Make Sharpe Thye Quilles, Give room, And Foot It!!

And Make the Gaelic Goddess Proud!

(She'll be back as soon as she closes on and gets moved into a beautiful new house they have named Moon on the Hill -- look for her around April 2-3 or so!) (Don't let her Down!!!!).

Sheep shoots sleeping shepherd -- March 8, 2001-- Web posted at: 9:29 PM EST (0229 GMT) CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Shepherd Mokhtar Adam Fadl was sleeping soundly beside his flock when he was shot dead. Hours later police found his killer.

It was one of his sheep, police officers said Thursday. The sheep killed Fadl by kicking his gun and accidentally firing it, the officers said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The shot hit Fadl in the chest as the 20-year-old Bedouin slept in the desert near Sidi Barrani, northwest Egypt.

Police in the district of Marsa Matrouh said they confiscated the locally made gun as it was not licensed.

They took the sheep away, but not to prison.

Go for it, Challengers!!!
 
Amos (for Áine)