The Manger And The Eatings(Published previously)  All the animals were fed up with the cold weather. The sheep bleathed about the harshness of the unsheltered life on the fields. That is they only mentioned it to each other as they knew only too well that some of the other animals loved to visualize their loneliness and lack of protection in the cold nights when the lazy shepherds and their over worked dogs stayed at home or simply allowed themselves to sleep instead of watching out for dangers to those who are eaten by meat eaters and whom they were to protect. "Hehehe," the owls laughed, sitting on branches above their heads and almost invisible in the shadows of the trees, ...