noon
They were tired enough to refrain from disturbing a man who slept . So , though they looked at him from where they sat and two or three asked each other if he were asleep or merely weary , he was left alone . One by one they who halted took up their journey again and the figure in the grass lay still . Finally near the noon hour there came from the summit of a hill overhanging the road , a high , wild , youthful yell that cut with startling distinctness through the dead level of human communication on the highway . Each of the travelers below looked up to see a young shepherd in sheepskins with long-blowing stiff crinkled locks flying back from a dusky face , with eyes soft and shining as those of some wild thing . Around him eddied a mob of sheep as wild as he , and a Natolian dog raced hither and thither in a cloud of dust , rounding the edge of the flock and shaping it to the advance of the young faun that mastered it . `` Sheep !