Resumo de Glennkill - Leonie Swann

1. On one of the Irish home farm sheep find their shepherd,

who is dead and has a spade in his stomach. Depressed

animals recall their protector in a good or bad
way.Sheep

decide to solve the mysterious death of this man, an

investigation is led by a sheep called Maple.People
living

in the vicinity gather on the farm and they discover
the

corpse. A journalist and few policemen arrive too and
they

take the body and the spade with them.It starts raining
and

sheep hide in their barn and they start investigation,

there are many questions which concern the shepherd's
death

and also some of them are connected with metaphysics.

Animals go to sleep.

2. The next day in the morning a flock of sheep leaves
the

barn and attacks a vegetable garden which was best-
guarded

be the dead shepherd.After eating vegetables,sheep feel

pricks of conscience except one of them-Otelia,which
hasn't

taken part in the robbery.Sheep gather next to a

trailer,where the shepherd was reading fairy tales,
books

about sheep's diseases, criminals,love stories for
them, he

also was telling them about his wife, who was the most

beautiful woman in the village, but after getting
married

she has become fat because of biscuits. He told them
that

he wanted to travel with his flock around Europe.

Sheep decide to commemorate their protector and the
small

part of the meadow they call "George's Place" and they

cannot pasture there any more.

People from the village come to the farm, they recall
the

man, they talk about his will, which he left and about
the

future of his farm and sheep.Animals are frightened
because

they suspect one of the man from the village - this
with a

long nose of murder the shepherd.

One of the sheep -the Cloud says that when she was a
lamb,

she met this man on the meadow and he was blessing

sheep.The Cloud recalls her visit in the
church,too.Sheep

pasture.The group of people from the village walks
away.The

flock recalls the times when their protector was alive,

they also think about human nature.Suddenly animals are

scared away by a clergyman's car (sheep call this
priest

God), they run away to the top of the hill and they see
a

clergyman who gets out of the car and starts looking
for

something on the farm.He scares away when he sees a
group

of adults, old men, children and dogs who go toward the

farm.

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