Name ____________________________ Date _______________________
Chapter seven introduces Babe and the readers to a sheepdog trial. Read the description of the trial location below and illustrate what you visualize in your mind as you learn about the setting.
The trials took place ten miles or so away, in a curved basin-shaped valley in the hills. At the lower end of the basin was a road. Close to this was the starting point, where the dogs would begin their outrun, and also the enclosure where they would finally pen their sheep. Down there all the spectators would gather. Farmer Hogget, arriving sometime before them, parked the Land Rover in the lane, and set off up the valley by a roundabout way, keeping in the shelter of the bordering woods, Fly padding behind him and Babe on the lead trotting to keep up with his long strides.
Babe – pages 65-66
