The quick light clatter of their hooves, the anxious baaing, and the wide silence over all.

How we watched them, smiling at their constant baaing and the delicate clank of the bells around their necks?

A moment later Blundy heard a chorus of dismayed baaing from the flock as their radio collars gave them peremptory little electric shocks.

There was a sudden restless baaing and several sheep ran between the ruined houses, scattering to avoid Brendan who raced after them brandishing a stick.

When the sound of the car's engine had faded, Mark was left with nothing but the occasional baaing of a distant sheep to break the silence in the gathering dark.

Behind the faint chirping of insects and the intermittent songs of the green and yellow birds came the low baaing of the sheep grazing around the cairns.

And gory too; I thought I heard a low moan from Floyd, but the baaing and farting of the sheots tended to drown out most other sounds.

The baaing of sheep and the mooing of cows from the many rough- hewn wooden stalls attested to the success of the efforts of Dr. Kathleen McCullough and her staff.

A sheep, burning only above its back legs, nearly collided with me, running through the already blazing garden and swerving at the last second from the door with a terrified baaing, then jumping over the low fence into the front garden.

Many others, though, adhere rigorously to tradition, and long ago made an appointment with one of the many butchers who, early Saturday morning, put an end to much of the baaing that has blended with the noise of traffic on Cairo streets.

The Intelli-Table, developed by Microsoft and Fisher-Price, promises to teach children who press its buttons about colors, letters, numbers and musical concepts - the last with animal sounds, like the baaing of sheep, set to snippets of a Mozart sonata.