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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Minnie's Pet Lamb, by Madeline Leslie
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+Title: Minnie's Pet Lamb
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+Author: Madeline Leslie
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+Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26619]
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+Transcriber's Note
+
+Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of corrections
+is found at the end of the text.
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+
+[Illustration: "Nannie! Nannie! come and get your breakfast!" P. 16.]
+
+[Illustration: MINNIE and her PETS
+  BY MRS MADELINE LESLIE
+  MINNIE'S PET LAMB.]
+
+
+
+
+                       MINNIE'S PET LAMB.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
+
+A. R. BAKER,
+
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
+Massachusetts.
+
+ELECTROTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
+
+
+
+
+                    TO MY YOUNG FRIEND,
+
+                  HENRY FOWLE DURANT, JR.
+
+                  =These Little Volumes=
+
+               ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
+
+                      BY THE AUTHOR,
+
+  IN THE EARNEST HOPE THAT THEY MAY INCREASE IN HIM THAT
+      LOVE OF NATURE AND OF RURAL LIFE WHICH HAS EVER
+          EXERTED SO SALUTARY AN INFLUENCE IN THE
+              FORMATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF
+                    THE WISE AND GOOD.
+
+
+
+
+MINNIE AND HER PETS.
+
+  Minnie's Pet Parrot.
+  Minnie's Pet Cat.
+  Minnie's Pet Dog.
+  Minnie's Pet Horse.
+  Minnie's Pet Lamb.
+  Minnie's Pet Monkey.
+
+
+
+
+
+MINNIE'S PET LAMB.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+NANNIE AND THE PONY.
+
+
+In another book, about Minnie's pet pony, I have already given you some
+account of Nannie, her pet lamb.
+
+This had all the peculiarities of the South Down, to which breed of
+sheep it belonged. It had full, bright, black eyes, a small head, and a
+brownish-gray face and legs. Its back was straight and wide, and covered
+with fine, short wool, which protected it from the cold.
+
+When Mr. Lee first brought the lamb home, it cried, or bleated,
+continually. It was placed in a pen close by the stall where Star, the
+Shetland pony, was kept, and, the next day after it came, managed to get
+over the light railing which separated them, and creep up close to the
+animal.
+
+I don't know what Star thought of the little creature; but I suppose he
+was pleased to have a companion, for when the hostler went to feed him,
+he found them on very social terms. After this, the lamb's affection for
+Star grew so strong that it soon forgot all about its mother and its old
+friends, and gave its whole heart to the new one. The pony returned the
+love, and was as kind to his little companion as he could possibly be.
+He never seemed better pleased than when the lamb was standing quietly
+by his side, eating the hay or turnips with which it was fed, or when,
+its hunger being appeased, it lay down close under his nose, and chewed
+its cud by the hour together.
+
+At such times, the pony was careful not to step on it, or injure it in
+any way, but expressed his delight in its society by little short
+neighs, which were sometimes answered by a responsive note.
+
+In a few days they understood each other perfectly, and were as well
+acquainted, and as fond of each other, as if they had lived together all
+their lives.
+
+Mr. Lee, who was visiting Minnie's pets with his little daughter, said,
+one morning, it would never do for the lamb to stand in the stall, so
+closely confined from the out-door air; and he directed John to turn it
+out into the barn yard for a few hours every day.
+
+The man did so; but the poor lamb bleated at this separation from its
+friend, until the groom happened to think such a change would do Star
+good too.
+
+As soon as the lamb saw the horse coming through the barn door, it
+stopped crying, and ran toward him just as it would if he had been its
+mother.
+
+Star put down his head to his favorite, when the lamb frisked and
+gambolled about him, occasionally nibbling at his nose, when he would
+start back, and, thinking this fine fun, would begin to dance again. O,
+what a pleasant time they did have!
+
+Every morning, Minnie went with her bowl of milk for Nannie, into
+which, as the lamb grew older, she crumbled some pieces of bread. It was
+a pretty sight to see the little creature peeping shyly, with its bright
+eyes, from behind its friend, and then coming a few steps toward her,
+when she called, in her low, sweet voice,--
+
+"Nannie! Nannie! come and get your breakfast!"
+
+Then she held the bowl down where the lamb could reach to put its mouth
+in, and laughed to see how much the pretty pet liked the milk.
+
+One morning the lamb had been eating so many turnips that it was not
+very hungry; and when Minnie called, it did not obey. In vain the little
+girl called out, in her softest tones, "Nannie, Nannie! come, pretty
+Nannie, and drink your milk."
+
+At last, the child went into the stable to see what was the matter with
+her pet, and there her father and mother presently found her, stooping
+down on the hay by the side of Star, with the lamb's head in her lap.
+
+"Minnie! Minnie! come out, quick! The horse will kick you," exclaimed
+her mother, greatly alarmed; but Mr. Lee only laughed, as he said,--
+
+"No, indeed; Star loves his young mistress too much for that. Let the
+child be; she is doing well enough."
+
+"But she will soil her clothes, and get her shoes covered with dirt,"
+urged the lady, still looking anxious.
+
+"O, mamma!" cried Minnie, "I'm in a real clean place on this straw, and
+Nannie likes to lick my hand. How funny Star is looking round to see
+what I am doing to his friend."
+
+A few hours later, when Mrs. Lee sat with her sewing in the back parlor,
+the little girl ran into the room, and taking a cricket, pulled it
+toward her mother, saying,--
+
+"I want you to tell me all you know about sheep and lambs. Can they do
+such wonderful things, as dogs, and horses, and cats can?"
+
+The lady laughed. "I am afraid," she began, "that you would not be
+satisfied with what little I can tell you; for I confess that I know
+very little about them. You had better wait till your father comes home,
+for he has been studying a good many books on that subject, and has
+learned about the different kinds, with a view to buying a flock.
+
+"Or you can ask Anne; for she was brought up in a shepherd's family, and
+can tell you all about the way they bring up little lambs when their
+mothers will not own them."
+
+"'Not own them,' mamma! What can you mean? I thought mothers always
+owned their little children."
+
+"Sometimes a ewe, as they call the mother, has two or three lambs at a
+time; and perhaps she thinks she could not nurse them all, and so she
+chooses one or two that she will take care of, and when the other comes
+near her, she butts it softly with her head. The lamb knows then that
+she will not take care of it; and the little forsaken creature begins to
+cry, Anne says, 'for all the world just like a little baby.'"
+
+"And what do the people do for it?" inquired Minnie, tears filling her
+eyes.
+
+"Why, they take it away from the flock, and 'bring it up by hand,' as
+they call it; that is, they feed it with milk, and it learns to love
+the one who takes care of it, and follows her about wherever she goes,
+just like a little dog. Anne will tell you all about it."
+
+"She is busy now. I heard her tell cook she wanted to give your chamber
+a thorough cleaning to-day. Can't you remember something more?"
+
+"You know that gentleman, Mr. Sullivan, who comes here sometimes with
+your father. He is what is called a practical shepherd; that is, he
+knows all about the habits of sheep, from having been brought up with
+them. He understands the different breeds, and knows which are the best
+for wool; and which, for mutton; and what kinds of food are best for
+them. I have heard your father say that he had gained a great deal of
+information from Mr. Sullivan, which he could not get from books. I
+think he will visit us again before long; and I advise you to save all
+your difficult questions for him to answer."
+
+"If father buys a flock, will he keep them on his farm?" asked the
+child.
+
+"O, no, dear! Sheep like to roam over the hills, and browse on the
+bushes and moss. They can find a very good living where a cow would
+suffer from hunger."
+
+At this moment, Anne appeared at the door, to ask her mistress a
+question, and Minnie took the opportunity to tell her that she wanted to
+hear about raising little lambs.
+
+"I'll be pleased enough to tell you, miss," answered the woman, smiling.
+"I've had a dale to do with sheep, and lambs, too, in my younger days,
+and many's the little cosset I've brought up by hand, when the poor
+cratur would otherwise have died."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+THE LITTLE LAMBS.
+
+
+Anne was standing on some high steps, putting up clean curtains in her
+mistress's room; and Minnie stood watching her, and wondering how soon
+she would be done, so she could tell about the lambs. At last she
+said,--
+
+"Anne, if I stand up in a chair, I could hold the nails and give them to
+you."
+
+"That's true for you, miss," answered the girl; "and it's a much better
+way than kapeing them in my mouth."
+
+"And you can talk better," urged Minnie, with a roguish look.
+
+Anne laughed outright. "Ah, it's the story ye're after, I see; and sure
+ye're welcome to all I can tell you.
+
+"You know my mother was English, and my father Irish. I was born in the
+great city o' Dublin; but after my father died, which was long enough
+before I could tell my right hand from my left, I went with my mother to
+her home in England. Of coorse, I knew nothing of that except by
+hearsay, which is no evidence at all; but well I can remember, when I
+was old enough, I was sent out on my grandfather's farm, to mind the
+sheep; I had a dog, Rover, to go with me, and a little crook, because
+I was a shepherdess, you know; and I used to carry dinner enough in my
+pail for Rover too, for he had to work hard, poor fellow!
+
+[Illustration: THE YOUNG SHEPHERDESS.]
+
+"I liked it very well at first, for the lambs looked so pretty, skipping
+around the dams; and the air was so fresh and bright; but I was a very
+little girl; so I soon grew tired, and left all the care of the sheep to
+Rover. He flew from one end of the field to the other, chasing them
+away from the hill where they used to wander and get lost.
+
+"When I saw the lambs drinking their mother's milk, I thought it must be
+very nice; and so I lay down on the grass, and drank some too; and I
+liked it so well that I used to drink every day, until grandfather found
+it out, and forbid me, because the lambs would not have enough.
+
+"By and by I grew up to be a big girl, and then, what with tending the
+sick sheep, and bringing up the cossets, I had plenty to do. Grandfather
+had five hundred ewes. He was a rich man, and every body thought well of
+him. When the lambs began to come, there were some of the ewes that
+would not own them."
+
+"I know about that, Anne," said Minnie; "mamma told me."
+
+"Well, when there are two, this is often the case; or sometimes the
+shepherd finds the mother has not milk enough for two, even if she would
+like them. Did your mamma tell you that some kinds of sheep are much
+better nurses than others?"
+
+"No, I think she did not know that. She says she don't know much about
+sheep."
+
+"Very likely, as she was not brought up with them. There is a kind
+called Merinos, which are very bad nurses. Grandfather wouldn't have
+them on that account, though they have very fine wool, which sells for a
+good price. Out of a hundred lambs, they wouldn't bring up more than
+half.
+
+"They are poor, tender little things, any way. Well, I mind the time
+when there was a great storm, and grandfather had to be up all night,
+housing the poor craturs; for the lambs were coming fast. A little past
+midnight, mother called me, and there we sat till morning, before a
+blazing fire, warming up one and another, as he brought them in. I sat
+down on a cricket, and took two or three in my lap at once, and hugged
+them up to my bosom. When they began to twitch, and we found they must
+die, we put them on the great hearth rug, and took more. Sometimes
+they'd just lie down and go to sleep, and when we had time to look at
+them, they'd be stiff and cold; and then again they would cry out like a
+baby. It used to make my heart ache to hear them."
+
+Anne had now finished her work, and came down from the steps.
+
+"I don't think I should like to be a shepherdess," said Minnie,
+sighing.
+
+"O, yes, you'd like it mightily. Such a time as that only comes once in
+a great many years. And then, when it's warm summer weather, and the
+lambs frisk and frolic about their mothers in the field, and you just
+sit down and play on the accordeon, while the dog keeps the flock in
+order,--O, there's no work so pleasant or so healthy as that!"
+
+When Mr. Lee returned from the city, Minnie was ready with her
+questions about sheep.
+
+"I want to know all I can about them," she exclaimed.
+
+"There are few stories that can be told about sheep," he answered,
+cheerfully; "for it must be confessed that they are far inferior to the
+horse, dog, and many other animals, in intelligence and sagacity. The
+sheep has few marked traits, except its meekness, and its natural
+affection for its young. Still, when I remember that the lamb was
+selected before all other animals for sacrifice, and as a type of Him
+who is called 'the Lamb of God,' and who is to take away the sins of the
+world, I feel a deep interest in its welfare.
+
+"The sheep, too, is one of the most useful animals, its fleece or wool
+being used as a covering to man, and its flesh for food. It was only
+yesterday I read the well-established fact that, from one pound of
+sheep's wool a thread was spun so fine that it reached to the almost
+incredible distance of ninety-five miles, while one of ordinary fineness
+reached twenty-six miles. This covering grows so thick in winter that it
+enables them to bear cold which would be fatal to other animals. They
+appear to know, too, when a storm is approaching, and take refuge under
+a sheltering hill or some projecting cliff.
+
+"One very curious thing is, that they can live under the snow for a long
+time. Mr. Sullivan, who is a shepherd, you know, told me a circumstance
+which occurred in his own experience.
+
+"There was every appearance of a storm, and he, with his men, drove the
+sheep early into the fold. In the morning, on counting them, he found
+there were seven valuable ewes missing. It had snowed all night, and was
+still snowing, when he started out in search of them. But nowhere could
+they be found. The storm continued four days, and the snow had reached a
+depth very uncommon; but day after day the search was renewed. At last,
+however, it was given up; when one day a woodcutter, in going over a
+stone wall which lay almost entirely concealed, fell through the snow,
+and found himself in the midst of the lost sheep. Their breath had
+rendered the crust, which was firm enough to bear his weight in other
+places, so thin here that it would not sustain him. They seemed lively
+and well, having found enough dead grass under the snow to sustain life.
+
+"There is an instance very similar to this in one of my books, which I
+will find and read to you."
+
+"In the winter of 1800, a sheep was buried in the snow near Kendal, and
+remained there thirty-three days and nights, without the possibility of
+moving, and yet survived.
+
+"In the same winter, a sheep near Caldbeck, in Cumberland, was buried
+thirty-eight days; when found, it had eaten the wool completely off both
+its shoulders, and was reduced to a skeleton; but with great care it
+recovered."
+
+"Mr. James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, gives a most interesting account
+of eight hundred ewes that were buried in the snow. Some of them he and
+his fellow-servants succeeded in getting out the first day; but the
+second there were but few of them to be seen, except the horns of some
+stragglers. The men went about, boring with long poles, but with little
+success, until their dog found out their difficulty, and flying to a
+spot, began to scrape away the snow. From this time, by his keen scent,
+he marked faster than they could get them out, and by his skill saved
+two hundred, though some were buried in a mountain of snow fifty feet
+deep. They were all alive, and most of them recovered their strength."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE SHEEP AND THE SCAVENGER.
+
+
+"Why, Minnie," said Mrs. Lee, one morning a few weeks later, "here is a
+story very much like that of our pony and lamb. If Poll will stop
+chattering, I will read it to you."
+
+"In December, 1825, Thomas Rae, a blacksmith in Hardhills, purchased a
+beautiful lamb, of the black-faced breed, from an individual passing
+with a large flock. It was so extremely wild that it was with great
+difficulty separated from its companions. He put it in a field in
+company with a cow and a little white pony. It never seemed to mind the
+cow, but soon manifested fondness for the pony, who showed the
+friendship to be reciprocated.
+
+"They soon became so attached that they were constantly to be seen in
+company, whether the pony was used for the saddle or its small carriage,
+exciting a smile from those who witnessed the unusual spectacle. When
+the lamb was approached, she would run under the pony for protection,
+when she would gaze around with looks of conscious security. At night,
+the lamb always repaired to the stable, and reposed under the manger,
+where it felt the pony's breath.
+
+"When separate, which only happened as it was effected by force, the
+little creature would raise the most plaintive bleatings, and the pony a
+responsive neighing.
+
+"On one occasion, they both strayed into an adjoining field, in which
+was a flock of sheep. The lamb joined the flock at a short distance from
+the pony; but as their owner removed him, it immediately followed,
+without the least regard to its own species.
+
+"Another time, when passing through a large flock, it followed its
+favorite without showing any signs of a desire to remain with its
+natural companions."
+
+"Somebody must have known about Nannie, and put it in a book," cried
+Minnie, greatly excited. "I wonder who it was."
+
+"I presume there are many such cases," answered the lady, smiling; "but
+you will be pleased to know that Mr. Sullivan will probably be here this
+evening; and you can ask him as many questions as you wish."
+
+The little girl clapped her hands, and then ran out to the kitchen, to
+tell Anne the good news.
+
+When her father returned, she looked anxiously into the carriage, to see
+whether he had any one with him, and was pleased to find that a
+dark-complexioned, black-whiskered man occupied the other seat.
+
+"I have prepared Mr. Sullivan for a regular catechising," exclaimed Mr.
+Lee, springing from the carriage, and kissing Minnie's glowing cheek.
+"You may show him Nannie, too; and he will tell you how to manage her."
+
+They were soon seated in the parlor, when Mr. Lee said,--
+
+"I have often thought of that beautiful passage in which our Saviour
+describes the Jewish shepherd: 'The sheep hear his voice, and he calleth
+his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out; and he goeth before them,
+and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.'"
+
+"It is astonishing," remarked the visitor, "what power a humane shepherd
+has over his flock, when he has once acquired their confidence. This
+method of giving names to the sheep, as well as to the leaders, is very
+important. They soon learn the name given them, and will readily come at
+the familiar call.
+
+"I read lately an account given by a gentleman who had been travelling
+in Greece, and he asked if it was customary there to give sheep names.
+'Yes,' was the answer; and soon after he had an opportunity of seeing
+for himself. Passing a flock, he asked the shepherd to call one. He did
+so; and it instantly left its pasture and its companions, and ran up to
+the shepherd with signs of pleasure, and with a prompt obedience which I
+had never seen excelled in any other animal.
+
+"I have heard, too, that an English shepherd knows every sheep in his
+flock. By feeding the lambs from the hand, and other kind treatment, he
+accustoms them to come at his call, and gradually to understand and
+follow his directions, when the rest of the flock will immediately
+follow.
+
+"In France, the shepherd selects certain sheep from the flock, gives
+them names, and teaches them to come by offering them a piece of bread.
+When he wishes to lead his flock through a defile, or to make them
+change the direction in which they are proceeding, he calls one of
+these selected sheep. Those that are nearest follow immediately, and the
+others are not very far behind; and so, by degrees, the whole flock is
+disposed to obey the call of the shepherd."
+
+"Since you were here last," rejoined Mr. Lee, "I have been reading
+Youatt's admirable treatise on sheep. He has an instance very similar
+concerning the flock of Messrs. Nowlan, Kilkenny. In 1820, they had six
+hundred pure Merinos, all under the charge of one man. Not even a dog
+was permitted; the whole care devolved on the shepherd.
+
+"At the sound of his horn, all the sheep flocked around him if he
+stopped, and followed him if he moved forward.
+
+"Salt was the means by which this docility was acquired, a small
+quantity of which he carried about with him, distributing a little as a
+reward for their obedience to his call.
+
+"The Kilkenny farm is divided by the King's River, which at times is so
+rapid and impetuous as not to be fordable by the strongest horse. A
+plank bridge, eighteen inches wide, and one hundred and ten feet long,
+with a rail on one side, is thrown across for the convenience of those
+who may be desirous of crossing the stream.
+
+"When it is necessary to remove the sheep from one side of the river to
+the other, the shepherd crosses the plank, sounding his horn, and each
+individual of the flock passes regularly after him in single file. Even
+in the highest floods, there has never occurred one single casualty."
+
+"That reminds me," said Mr. Sullivan, "of the flocks in the Island of
+Cyrnon, which, on the landing of a stranger, always flee away into the
+interior of the country; but as soon as the shepherd blows his horn,
+they scamper around him, and forget every fear.
+
+"But all this time I am quite unmindful of my young friend, who has not
+yet asked one question."
+
+"I want to know whether it's easy to be a shepherdess," said Minnie,
+blushing; "because I should like to be one; only I should want the kind
+of sheep that would own their lambs, and love them."
+
+Both Mr. Lee and his visitor laughed heartily.
+
+"Sheep have one trait, and a very marked one," said Mr. Sullivan, "which
+makes it difficult to keep them in order. That is, their habit of
+imitation. On my farm, the boundary one side is a stone wall, and it
+seems almost impossible to keep them from going over it. There is no
+better feed in my neighbor's pasture; but for some reason the leader
+runs over, and then the whole flock follow. They know better, and they
+seldom attempt it when Moses, the dog, is in sight; for sheep soon learn
+the exact boundaries of their enclosure: from being driven back so
+often, they find how far they can roam, and remain in peace.
+
+"So, Miss Minnie, unless you can run very fast, and like to keep on the
+chase pretty much all day, I think you would find it easier to take care
+of your pets at home than to be a shepherdess."
+
+"Will you please tell me a story about sheep?" said the little girl.
+
+"If you like a laughable story, I can tell you one which I was thinking
+of not a minute since. It illustrates their habit of imitation. It is
+often exceedingly difficult to drive a flock of sheep through a narrow
+passage to which they are unaccustomed; but if one of them can be got
+through, the rest follow without the slightest trouble.
+
+"A butcher's boy was driving some fat sheep through Liverpool; but they
+ran down a street where he did not wish them to go. The boy saw a man
+before him sweeping the street, and called loudly to him,--
+
+"'Stop them! Turn them about!'
+
+"The man began to run from one side of the street to the other, always
+opposing himself and his broom to them when they tried to force a
+passage through; but the sheep became more and more excited, and
+pressed forward with increasing impetuosity.
+
+"At last, one of them came right up to the man, who was stooping down,
+as if he were going to jump over him, which so frightened the fellow
+that, instead of rising, he seized the short broomstick, with one hand
+on either end, and held it over his head. He remained a few seconds in
+this position, when the sheep made a spring, and jumped fairly over
+him, without touching the broom.
+
+"The first had no sooner done this, than another followed, and then
+another, in quick succession, so that the man, perfectly confounded,
+seemed to lose all recollection, and remained in the same attitude until
+the whole flock had jumped over him, not one of them attempting to pass
+on either side, though the street was quite clear.
+
+"All this took place just after a wet day, so that the man was entirely
+bespattered with mud and dirt before they had all passed; and it would
+be impossible to conceive a more ludicrous appearance than the poor
+fellow made on that occasion."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+ATTACHMENT TO HOME.
+
+
+"That's a real funny story," exclaimed Minnie, her eyes sparkling with
+mirth, "only I can't help pitying that poor man."
+
+"I can recall another, though a sadder incident," continued Mr.
+Sullivan, "illustrating the same quality."
+
+"In 1808, an accident happened in England to some sheep belonging to
+Mr. Cooper, of Huilston Hall, who had intrusted them to the care of a
+boy for that day, in the absence of the shepherd, who was assisting in
+getting in the harvest.
+
+"About the middle of the day, the sheep broke from their pasture, when
+the thoughtless boy drove them back in great haste over a narrow and
+deep ditch. The leading sheep fell in, and the remainder, passing over
+them, smothered twenty-five sheep and forty lambs, the whole being worth
+near four hundred dollars.
+
+"In the same book, there is also an account of a flock near Guildford,
+consisting of more than eight hundred sheep, in one pasture. A dog one
+day jumped the hedge, and so frightened them that one of them jumped
+into an adjoining field, which was on a great descent, when the rest of
+the flock followed each other over the gap of the hedge so fast that one
+hundred and twenty-three of them were killed."
+
+"There is one quality or characteristic of the sheep which will interest
+you, Minnie," said her father, "and that is their love of home. Perhaps
+Mr. Sullivan will tell you some stories about that."
+
+"I should be very glad to hear them, and about the little lambs."
+
+"A great deal can be said upon that," returned the shepherd, cheerfully.
+"So strong is their attachment to the place where they have been bred,
+that I have heard of their returning to the Highlands of Scotland from a
+distance of three hundred miles. When a few sheep accidentally get away
+from their acquaintance in the flock, they always return home with
+great eagerness and perseverance.
+
+"The most singular instance that I know of is that of a black ewe, that
+returned from a farm in the head of Glen Lyon to her home in Tweeddale,
+and accomplished the journey in nine days. She was soon missed by her
+owner, and a shepherd was despatched in pursuit of her, who followed her
+all the way to Crieff, where he turned and gave her up. He got
+intelligence of her all the way, and every one told him that she
+absolutely persisted in travelling on--she would not be turned,
+regarding neither sheep nor shepherd by the way.
+
+"Her poor little lamb was often far behind, and she had constantly to
+urge it on by impatient bleating. She unluckily reached Stirling on the
+morning of a great annual fair, about the end of May, and judging it
+imprudent to venture through the crowd with her lamb, she halted on the
+north side of the town the whole day, where she was seen by hundreds,
+lying close by the roadside.
+
+"But the next morning, a little before the break of day, when all was
+still, she was seen stealing quietly through the town, in apparent
+terror of the dogs that were prowling about the street. The last time
+she was seen on the road was at a toll bar near St. Ninian's; the man
+stopped her, thinking she was a strayed animal, and that some one would
+claim her. She tried several times to break through by force, when he
+opened the gate for travellers; but he always prevented her, and at
+length she turned patiently back. She found some means of eluding him,
+however; for she reached home on a Sabbath morning early in June, having
+left the farm at Glen Lyon either on Thursday afternoon or Friday
+morning, a week and two days before.
+
+"I suppose her former owner thought she had earned a right to remain on
+her native farm, for he paid the Highland farmer the price of her, and
+she remained with him till she at length died of old age, in her
+seventeenth year."
+
+At this moment, company was announced, who remained till evening, so
+that poor little Minnie, after waiting a long time for her stories, was
+obliged to go to bed without them.
+
+"Never mind, dear," whispered her father, noticing her look of
+disappointment; "I have a book with beautiful anecdotes of sheep and
+lambs, which I will read to you when I come home to-morrow night."
+
+In the morning, Mr. Sullivan found time to pay Nannie a visit, and
+pronounced her in a thriving condition. He recommended Mr. Lee to have
+her wool sheared off, as it was so long as to make her uncomfortable
+during the heat of summer.
+
+Nannie was now a year old, and was a fine, large lamb, with her speckled
+face looking very bright and intelligent, and, as the gentleman said,
+did credit to the care of her shepherdess.
+
+Soon after breakfast, Mr. Lee and his visitor went to the library on
+business, and Minnie did not see them again until just as they were
+getting into the carriage to drive away. She waited with some impatience
+for her father to return, and wished she knew what book her father
+referred to as having the stories in it, so that she might have it
+ready for him.
+
+Her mother, finding that she was restless and discontented, advised her
+to apply herself to her letters, which she was beginning to learn.
+
+If the truth must be told, the little girl was not fond of study; but
+when her mother reminded her that most children of her age could read
+and spell with ease, and that, if she was diligent, she herself would
+soon be able to read stories, and not be dependent on any one else, she
+thought it would be a good thing to learn. For half an hour, she forgot
+her desire for her father's return in finding A's and E's in books to
+match letters on her cards.
+
+Evening came at last, and Mr. Lee with it. He looked very smiling, and
+told his wife his sister was in the city, and was coming in a few weeks
+to visit them. The moment he saw Minnie's expectant face, he told her he
+would be ready in five minutes to attend to her, and then invited Mrs.
+Lee to accompany them to the library, to hear some stories from the
+Shepherd's Calendar, and other books.
+
+In a few moments, Minnie was seated on her father's lap, her whole
+countenance beaming with pleased anticipation.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+AFFECTION FOR ITS YOUNG.
+
+
+The gentleman began:--
+
+"The marked characteristic of the sheep is that of natural affection, of
+which it possesses a great share. At the present time, there is in
+Regent's Park a poor sheep, with very bad foot rot. Crawling along the
+pasture on its knees, it with difficulty contrives to procure for itself
+subsistence; and the pain which it suffers when compelled to get on its
+feet is evidently very great. At a little distance from the sufferer was
+another sheep, which, after close observation, I found was always the
+same. As I pursued my regular morning walk through the Park, I commonly
+sought out the friends, and, after two or three days, they seemed to be
+aware that no harm was intended them, and they suffered me to come near
+enough to observe their signals, and fully to satisfy myself that it was
+always the same faithful adherent by whom the cripple was solaced and
+watched.
+
+"When a sheep becomes blind, it is rarely abandoned to itself in this
+hapless and helpless state. Some one of the flock attaches himself to
+it, and by bleating calls it back from the precipice, and the lake, and
+the pool, and every kind of danger to which it is exposed."
+
+"Isn't that good of them?" cried Minnie, eagerly. "I like those sheep."
+
+"There was once a gentleman living in Inverness," Mr. Lee went on, "who
+was passing through a lonely and unfrequented district, when he observed
+a sheep bleating most piteously, and hurrying along the road to meet
+him; on his approaching nearer, the animal redoubled its cries, and
+looking earnestly in his face, seemed to implore some favor or
+assistance.
+
+"Touched with a sight so unusual, he alighted, and leaving his gig, he
+followed the sheep in the direction whence it had come. There, in a
+solitary place, the ewe stopped, and the traveller found a lamb,
+completely wedged in between two large stones, almost exhausted, but
+still continuing to struggle very feebly.
+
+"The kind gentleman instantly extricated the little sufferer, and placed
+it safely on the neighboring greensward, while the delighted mother
+poured out her thanks in a long-continued and grateful, if not a
+musical, strain.
+
+"An interesting provision of nature with regard to these animals is,
+that the more inhospitable the land on which they feed, the greater
+will be their kindness and affection to their young.
+
+"'I once herded,' says the Ettrick Shepherd, 'two years on a wild and
+bare farm, called Willenslee, on the border of Mid Lothian; and of all
+the sheep I ever saw, these were the kindest and most affectionate to
+their lambs. I was often deeply affected at scenes which I witnessed. We
+had one very hard winter, so that our sheep grew lean in the spring,
+and disease came among them, and carried off a number. Often have I seen
+these poor victims, when fallen to rise no more, even when unable to
+lift their heads from the ground, holding up the leg to invite the
+starving lamb to the miserable pittance that the udder still could
+supply. I had never seen aught more painfully affecting.
+
+"'It is well known that it is a custom with shepherds, when a lamb dies,
+if the mother have a sufficiency of milk, to bring her from the hill,
+and put another lamb to her. This is done by putting the skin of the
+dead lamb upon the living one; the ewe immediately acknowledges the
+relationship, and after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it
+something of the smell of her own lamb, and when it has suckled her two
+or three times, she accepts it, and nourishes it as her own ever after.
+Whether it is from joy at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or
+because a little doubt remains in her mind, which she would fain dispel,
+I can not decide; but, for a number of days, she shows far more
+fondness, by bleating and caressing, over this one, than she formerly
+did over the one that was really her own.
+
+"'While at Willenslee, I never needed to drive home a sheep by force,
+with dogs, or in any other way than the following: I found every ewe, of
+course, hanging her head over her dead lamb; and having a piece of twine
+with me for the purpose, I tied that to the lamb's neck or foot, and,
+trailing it along, the ewe followed me into any house, or fold, or
+wherever I chose to lead her. Any of them would have followed me in
+that way for miles, with her nose close on the lamb, which she never
+quitted for a moment, except to chase my dog, which she would not suffer
+to walk near me.
+
+"'Out of curiosity, I often led them in to the side of the kitchen fire,
+by this means into the midst of servants and dogs; but the more that
+dangers multiplied around the ewe, the closer she clung to her dead
+offspring, and thought of nothing whatever but protecting it. One of
+the two years while I remained on this farm, a severe blast of snow came
+on by night, about the latter end of April, which destroyed several
+scores of our lambs; and as we had not enough of twins and odd lambs for
+the mothers that had lost theirs, of course we selected the best ewes,
+and put lambs to them. I found one fine ewe standing over a dead lamb
+in the head of the Hope, and asked my master to put a lamb to her, but
+he did not. I watched her, and faithfully did she stand to her charge;
+so faithfully, that I think the like was never equalled by any of the
+woolly race. I visited her morning and evening, and for the first eight
+days never found her above two or three yards from the lamb; and always,
+as I went my rounds, she eyed me long ere I came near her, and kept
+trampling with her feet, and whistling through her nose, to frighten
+away the dog. He got a regular chase, twice a day, as I passed by.
+
+"'The weather grew fine and warm, and the dead lamb soon decayed; but
+still this affectionate and desolate creature kept hanging over the poor
+remains, with an attachment that seemed to be nourished by
+hopelessness. It often drew tears from my eyes, to see her hanging with
+such fondness over a few bones, mixed with a small portion of wool.
+
+"'For the first fortnight, she never quitted the spot, and for another
+week she visited it every morning and evening, uttering a few kindly and
+heart-piercing bleats each time, till at length every remnant of her
+offspring vanished, mixing with the soil, or wafted away by the winds
+of heaven.'"
+
+"There, Minnie, I think you have heard enough for to-night," said Mr.
+Lee, gayly, as he heard his little daughter sigh repeatedly.
+
+"O, father, I can't help being so sorry for the poor sheep!"
+
+"You had better read her something more cheerful, or she'll be thinking
+of that all night," responded Mrs. Lee, laughing at the child's
+dolorous tone.
+
+"Yes, father, please read one more."
+
+"Well, then, here is something that will please you."
+
+"A drover, being on his way to Smithfield market with a flock of sheep,
+one of them became so sore-footed and lame that it could travel no
+farther. The man, wishing to get on, took up the distressed animal, and
+dropped it over the paling of an enclosure belonging to Mr. O'Kelly, and
+where the celebrated race-horse Dungannon was then grazing, and pursued
+his journey, intending to call for the sheep on his return, believing,
+after a little rest, it would quickly recover. This was the case; but,
+in the mean time, a strong attachment grew up between the two
+inhabitants of the paddock. The horse would playfully nibble the neck
+of the sheep, and, without hurting it, would lift it into the manger of
+a neighboring shed belonging to the field, as much as to say, 'Though
+you are not able to reach it, I will help you to the banquet.' Besides
+this, the horse would, on all occasions, protect his new friend, and
+would suffer no one to interfere with him.
+
+"When the drover returned, the two friends had become so attached, that
+it seemed cruel to part them; and Mrs. O'Kelly, having learned the
+circumstances, bought the sheep, and left the friends in peaceable
+possession of the paddock and its adjoining shelter."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE SHEEP-FARM.
+
+
+About this time, Minnie went a short journey with her parents, and was
+greatly delighted when, one afternoon, they drove through a long,
+winding lane to a farmhouse, where her friend, Mr. Sullivan, was
+residing.
+
+"Will you please let me see the lambs?" she asked the kind old lady, Mr.
+Sullivan's mother, who kept house for him at this time.
+
+"My little daughter has been scarcely able to contain her joy,"
+explained Mr. Lee, "since I told her, a few miles back, that we were
+going to visit your son."
+
+The good woman smiled kindly upon the child, and then went to the back
+door, where she took down a long horn, and blew upon it with all her
+might.
+
+"Joseph will hear that," she said, laughing, as she saw Minnie's large
+eyes fixed so eagerly on her face, "and he will come up presently from
+the field. When he has taken care of your father's horses, you can go
+back with him if you please."
+
+"And may I take the little lambs in my arms? I love lambs dearly."
+
+"They are rather shy of strangers, dear, but you can try. If the ewes
+are willing, I am."
+
+Minnie then ran to the door, and soon announced, in a glad voice, that
+Mr. Sullivan was in sight.
+
+He gave them a cheering welcome, and, after kissing Minnie, told her she
+might run all over the farm, just where she pleased.
+
+"There is a calf in the barn," he said, laughing, "and plenty of little
+pigs in the sty."
+
+"But I like lambs better than pigs, sir."
+
+"Well, there are some over a hundred of them, and you shall be
+introduced to their acquaintance as soon as I have given the horses some
+oats."
+
+Mrs. Lee was readily induced to join the party, although somewhat tired
+with her long drive. The sheep, of which there were one hundred and
+fifty, were eating grass on the side of a hill, but, at the shepherd's
+call, came running to meet him, bleating for their lambs to follow. He
+threw out some salt, with which his huge pockets were filled; and while
+Minnie gazed with sparkling eyes and flushed cheeks upon the unusual
+scene, asked Mr. Lee what he thought of their appearance.
+
+"I never saw a finer flock," was the eager reply. "They do credit to
+their keeping."
+
+A scream of delight from Minnie caused her father to turn quickly, in
+time to see a beautiful white lamb crowding its little nose through the
+fence, into the child's hand.
+
+"Here, Minnie," said the shepherd, giving her an ear of corn; "hold this
+up, and call, 'Luke,' and you'll soon have the mother to the lamb eating
+from the cob." He laughed merrily, as he added, "My boy has given them
+all Bible names; so we have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He hesitated
+a little about Acts, but finally thought he'd better go straight
+through. So here comes Acts, with her twin lambs, as fine a pair as
+there is in the flock."
+
+Mr. and Mrs. Lee laughed heartily, and presently Minnie asked, "What is
+the name of that great one, with horns?"
+
+"O! That's Jeroboam. He's a cruel fellow, I'm sorry to say. I wouldn't
+advise you to have much to do with such a fellow as he is."
+
+"He looks like a picture in our Bible of a ram going to sacrifice," said
+the child, gravely. "I wish he were good, though."
+
+"Here comes a lamb now," said Mr. Sullivan, "that I took the liberty to
+name for you. To my fancy, she's the prettiest one of the flock. Minnie,
+Minnie, come and get your corn."
+
+"Can lambs eat corn, sir?"
+
+"No; but their mothers can, and they get the good of it."
+
+Minnie's mother came and ate the corn greedily from his hand, while the
+lamb danced about, first on one side and then on the other, much to the
+amusement of the child.
+
+"Do they stay out in the field all night, sir?"
+
+"O, no! we always shelter them. At this season, we allow them to feed
+till late; the sun being so hot in the middle of the day, they all
+crowd under the shade of the hill."
+
+"But what do they do when it rains?"
+
+"A warm shower doesn't hurt the lambs; but we had some cold north-east
+storms earlier in the season, when we were obliged to drive them all in,
+as we couldn't separate the lambs from their mothers. One day, we tried
+to keep the ewes out to feed, but they bleated so much for their little
+ones 'twas no use; they wouldn't eat."
+
+"I'm glad of that," cried Minnie, eagerly. "I'm glad your sheep love
+their children. In Ireland, sometimes they won't own them."
+
+"We had a great deal of trouble with the merinos," Mr. Sullivan went on,
+directing his remark to Mr. Lee. "Not one in ten cared any thing about
+her lamb. If she had milk enough, I could tie her; but it often made my
+heart ache to hear the poor wee things crying for a mother's care. I was
+almost glad when they died off, as they generally did. I find it's the
+universal opinion now that merinos make poor nurses."
+
+The shepherd turned smilingly to Minnie: "Have you any more questions to
+ask, Miss?"
+
+"O, a great many! But as we are going to stay all night, I shall have
+time."
+
+"Then, my dear, I will go in," said her mother, laughing. "I think you
+have catechised Mr. Sullivan quite enough for the present."
+
+The next hour was spent by the child in wandering all over the farm. In
+company with her father and the good-humored shepherd, she examined the
+neat continuous racks all around the sheep-house, which, in winter,
+were filled with hay or husks for their food. Long troughs were
+underneath, into which, as night approached, she was much amused to see
+the boy, Isaac, pour the scalded meal.
+
+In the centre of the house was a large, shallow box or trough, filled
+with clear water from a neighboring hill. This, Mr. Sullivan assured
+them, had not frozen during the winter.
+
+Minnie stood for a long time watching the pearly drops as they trickled
+slowly through the pipe, wondering why the water never rose any higher
+in the trough. At length her father showed her a little pipe which
+carried off the waste water into the ground.
+
+They were sitting at the supper table, and Minnie was giving a glowing
+account of her discoveries, when they were startled by a loud shouting:
+"Stop, Israel! Go along, Moses! Ssh! hi! there, Obadiah! Here, Jonah,
+Amos, Nebuchadnezzar, Moses! what are you about?"
+
+"What is the stupid fellow bringing up the sheep at this time for?"
+queried Mr. Sullivan, glancing at the clock; and then, seeing the look
+of merriment on the faces of his visitors, he burst into a hearty laugh.
+
+"I believe you'll have to excuse me," he said, rising hastily. "Isaac
+will never be able to get them into the fold alone."
+
+"I want to go, too," whispered Minnie.
+
+She was rather frightened at first at the loud bleating of the ewes, and
+the responsive cries of the lambs; but keeping close to the shepherd,
+had the satisfaction of feeling that she was of great assistance in
+driving them into the enclosure.
+
+The moment they began to enter the sheep-house, the boy, Isaac,
+commenced a loud, shrill whistle, which the sheep seemed to understand,
+and which her friend informed her directed them to the troughs for their
+supper.
+
+"I didn't mean to shelter them for an hour yet," exclaimed the lad, when
+his master blamed him for driving them to the fold so early; "but
+Jeroboam butted down a rail in the fence, and before I knew it, the
+crazy creatures were all out in the garden."
+
+"We must kill that fellow if he does much more mischief," Mr. Sullivan
+said; and taking Minnie's hand, they returned to the house.
+
+"It speaks well for Isaac's knowledge of Scripture," remarked Mr. Lee,
+archly, "that he has chosen the names so appropriately."
+
+"O! He goes to mother for that," was the ready answer; "but it does
+surprise me to see how he recognizes every one. I believe he is as well
+acquainted with the name and character of every sheep and lamb as a
+pastor is with his congregation. I often hear him talking to one for
+being selfish, or praising another for her meekness. I am well enough
+acquainted with Jeroboam to know that he is as obstinate and
+self-willed as his illustrious namesake."
+
+"Isaac says little Abner is a thief," exclaimed Minnie, laughing.
+
+"So he is, and steals his supper from the ewes whenever he can get it,
+at the expense of many a poor lamb."
+
+"I saw Minnie again, mother, and I knew her in a minute."
+
+"You'd make a capital shepherdess," added Mr. Sullivan; "you'd govern
+them all by love."
+
+"That is the way you do," remarked his mother.
+
+"Well, there is no other way. Sometimes they are rather provoking; but I
+always feel ashamed of myself when I lose my temper with a brute. There
+is nothing like kindness to conquer even the most obstinate animal. Last
+winter, I had a man to help me. He was giving one of the ewes a dose of
+medicine, and she struggled so hard to get away that she threw over the
+cup three successive times. I found he could do nothing with her, and so
+I myself undertook the job. The poor creature was by that time so
+frightened, that when I forced the spoon between her teeth, she bit my
+finger to the bone. I said nothing of the pain until I had accomplished
+my object--"
+
+"And then you came near fainting," interrupted his mother. "The finger
+was a long time in healing."
+
+"The man was terribly angry," added the shepherd, "and showed so much
+spite to the innocent cause of his rage, that I told him he was unfit
+for the care of animals; that he degraded himself to a brute when he
+revenged on them his own awkwardness. I dismissed him, and took Isaac,
+who is worth a dozen such fellows."
+
+The next morning, Minnie arose in season to help Isaac drive the sheep
+from the fold to the pasture; and then, having received a promise from
+Mrs. Sullivan to save some of the lamb's wool, and knit Minnie a pair of
+stockings, she took leave of the farm, exclaiming, as she rode off, "O,
+I do love sheep, and I wish we lived on a farm!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE SHEPHERD'S DOG.
+
+
+A few mornings after this, Minnie went out at an early hour to see her
+pets in the stable, when she found the sheep lying on its side, quiet
+and still. She did not, as usual, spring forward to eat the corn which
+Minnie was sure to have for her, but only raised a feeble, plaintive
+cry.
+
+As her father was already gone to the city, Minnie flew to the house,
+for Anne to come and tell her what was the matter with poor Nannie.
+
+Anne looked very sober after examining the sheep, and then said, "It
+must have a dose of medicine at once."
+
+Poor Minnie was dreadfully excited, and looked really pale, though, like
+a brave little girl, she insisted on holding the cup from which nurse
+was feeding sick Nannie. Star, too, seemed really anxious, and he was
+quite careful to keep his own side of the stall, for fear he should hurt
+his favorite.
+
+Through the day, Minnie visited the barn as often as twice in an hour,
+and always insisted that Anne should accompany her. Before her father
+returned, she had the satisfaction of knowing that Nannie was much
+better. She was still very weak, but her eyes looked brighter, and she
+chewed her cud, which Anne said was a good sign.
+
+To turn her mind from her trouble, Mr. Lee took his book again, and
+said,--
+
+"Minnie, did you ever hear of a sheep that had so fat a tail that it
+weighed more than fifty pounds?"
+
+"O, no, sir," answered the child, laughing; "how funny they must look!"
+
+"They are called the fat-tailed sheep," added her father, "and are
+natives of Africa."
+
+"Are there as many kinds of sheep as there are of dogs?"
+
+"More, if all the inferior qualities are counted. They are constantly
+multiplied, too; and there are many very greatly improved varieties. Now
+I suppose you would like to hear about the sheep-dogs, and how they are
+trained to take care of the flocks."
+
+"Yes, sir, I should like that."
+
+"In many parts of the world, where there are immense flocks, it is very
+important to have dogs to assist in taking care of them. But as a sheep
+considers the dog an enemy, and is more afraid of him than of almost any
+other animal it meets, it is necessary, in the first place, to get these
+animals acquainted, that they may feel friendly.
+
+"In order to do this, when one of the ewes has a lamb, the shepherd
+takes it from her, and puts a young puppy in its place.
+
+"After being held two or three times while the puppy suckles her, the
+ewe will generally adopt the little creature, and love it as well as if
+it was her own lamb.
+
+"All this time, the puppy has a bed of wool to lie on, to accustom him
+to the smell of the animal; and by the time he is weaned, he becomes so
+attached to his new friends, that he will never forsake them, nor leave
+the particular drove with which he has been brought up. Not even the
+voice of his master can entice him out of sight of the flock. No hunger
+and thirst can do it. There he remains, constant and true to his charge,
+ready even to lay down his life for them, while they regard him not only
+as a dearly loved friend, but as a protector and guide, whom it is
+their duty to obey. Did you ever know, Minnie, that the Italian wolf dog
+has short wool under his hair? This is the case, the wool resembling the
+Leicester and Lincoln breeds.
+
+"One of these faithful, noble animals takes charge of a thousand sheep,
+going out with them in the morning, and bringing them all back at night.
+
+"If one of the sheep strays from its companions, the dog follows it,
+even into a strange flock, takes it carefully by the ear, and leads it
+back.
+
+"When a stranger approaches the flock, the dog advances, barking, and
+the sheep all close in his rear, as if round the oldest ram, while they
+are so fierce with other dogs and wolves, that it is said a whole pack
+of hungry wild dogs will not venture to attack them.
+
+"The only trouble with the sheep-dog is, that when they are young, they
+like to play with the sheep, and sometimes run them unmercifully; but
+when they are older, they seem fully to understand their duty, and walk
+up and down continually on the outer side of the flock, ever watchful
+for the approach of danger.
+
+"Sometimes, where there is a scarcity of grass, two flocks will be
+brought within a short distance of each other, when these faithful
+sentinels place themselves in the space between them, and if one or a
+number attempt to rush across and make acquaintance with their
+neighbors, their respective dog gently but firmly selects them from all
+the others, and leads them back. What is very strange is the fact that
+on such occasions, the other dog stands quietly by until the intruders
+are removed, while no force would induce him to allow the strange dog
+to enter his flock on any other pretence.
+
+"A very affecting instance of the faithfulness of these animals I will
+tell you.
+
+"A shepherd dog, having the charge of a small flock, was allowed to
+wander with them into the mountains, while the shepherd returned to his
+village for a few days, having perfect confidence in the ability of the
+animal to protect them, but with a strange forgetfulness to provide the
+dog with food.
+
+"Upon his return to the flock, he found it several miles from the place
+where he had left it, but on the road leading to the village, while the
+poor dog, in the midst of plenty, was lying by the roadside in the
+agonies of death by starvation. He might have torn one of the lambs to
+pieces; but so devoted was he to his charge, that rather than injure
+one of them he sacrificed his own life."
+
+"What a wicked man!" cried Minnie, indignantly. "I shouldn't think he
+would ever forgive himself."
+
+"Yes, it was cruel; but no doubt he felt the loss keenly, as it could
+not readily be made up. Another dog must be brought up among them, and
+be trained to his business; for it is a mistake to suppose that,
+however well taught a shepherd's dog may be, he will be allowed by the
+sheep to come among them until they have learned to regard him as a
+friend and protector."
+
+"I heard, not long since, a laughable story, to illustrate this fact.
+
+"Mr. Thomas Jefferson, one of our Presidents, having a flock of sheep on
+his place at Monticello, was very glad to receive a thoroughly broken
+shepherd dog which had been sent him.
+
+"Soon after its arrival, he had a number of distinguished guests, to
+whom he made known his recent gift, the convenience of having a dog to
+manage his flock, and the almost incredible ability of the animal, and
+whom he led forth to witness the value of his present.
+
+"The dog had not as yet been admitted to the sheep, but at the word of
+command sprang in among them.
+
+"The terrified animals fled in all directions, some of them dashing
+themselves over precipices, and breaking their necks.
+
+"The dog either shared the same fate, or, mortified at his failure, felt
+his pride too deeply wounded to return. Mr. Jefferson never recovered
+him."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+HARRY AND HATTY.
+
+
+One pleasant morning in June, Mr. Lee ordered the carriage, and drove
+with Minnie to a delightful residence on the border of a lovely lake.
+Minnie had often been here to visit little Harry, only child of her
+mother's friends.
+
+This dear boy, like Minnie, had many pets, and could fully sympathize
+with her in her love for animals and for the beauties of nature.
+
+Harry had a pony named Cherokee; he had also pretty birds, that he
+delighted to watch, as they hung in their cage.
+
+But the pet which Harry loved more than all others was a lamb, which he
+had named Hatty. This little creature had been given him but a short
+time before Minnie's visit; but it had learned to know his voice, to
+run to meet him, and to eat grass from his hand.
+
+When Hatty was first carried from her mother to Harry's home, she cried
+for her usual companions. The boy's tender heart was touched, and he
+begged his father to let the lamb sleep in his room.
+
+"She will be so lonely!" he urged; "and I shall want to take care of
+her. Please, papa, be so kind as to let me have her there."
+
+His parents, ever anxious to please their dear child, readily consented;
+but first his mamma allowed him to take his pet into the lake for a
+bath.
+
+Nurse, laughing at his delight, dressed Harry in his red flannel bathing
+suit; and then, with his lamb in his arms, he waded into the water.
+
+Hatty was a little afraid; but even in those few hours that she had
+been with her young master, she had learned that he would not allow her
+to be injured.
+
+When the lamb's soft wool was dry, as it soon was in the hot sun, his
+father left his reading in the parlor to help him find a basket large
+enough for the lamb's bed.
+
+In the morning, when his mother went into his chamber, she laughed to
+see that he had taken his pet to share his own bed, and was lying with
+his arms around her neck, kissing her with demonstrative affection.
+
+"Pretty little Hatty!" he exclaimed, again and again; "I do love you so
+dearly!"
+
+Minnie had scarcely alighted from the carriage, when Harry cried out,
+"Please come and see my lamb."
+
+The child smilingly followed him to the field, where the little
+creature was learning to graze in the rich clover. As soon as she heard
+his voice, she ran toward him, bleating and showing every mark of strong
+affection. She was a pretty lamb, with long, silky wool, gentle eyes,
+and a meek, loving expression.
+
+During the day, the two children were scarcely a moment away from Hatty;
+for Harry's heart was moved by her cries for him, and he was so fond of
+her he could not endure a separation. Sometimes they would sit down on
+the clean, sweet grass, the boy laying his head on Hatty's neck; but
+more commonly they were running over the lawn, with the lamb close at
+their heels, sharing their happiness.
+
+"O, mamma," he exclaimed, when they went in to dinner, "we have had such
+a funny time! Hatty knows Minnie now quite well; but she does not love
+her, of course, as she does me. She cries for me whenever she cannot see
+me."
+
+His mother smiled, and then asked, "Have you told Minnie about Una, and
+what Hatty does while you are learning your lessons?"
+
+"O, no, mamma! I quite forgot to tell her."
+
+"Will you please tell me about Una?" urged Minnie, with great
+earnestness.
+
+"Yes, dear. Una was the name of a lamb I once saw. She was not gentle
+and loving, as Harry's lamb is; she was more lively, and full of tricks.
+She had a bad habit of browsing the trees, so that her mistress one day
+told a servant to tie her to a stake in the orchard, or she would
+destroy the young plants.
+
+"Una had a little companion that was very quiet and inoffensive, but
+was sometimes led by her into mischief. The next morning after she had
+been tied, when the man went with the leather strap and string to lead
+her to the orchard again, Una was nowhere to be found. All day long she
+and her companion were off out of sight; but at night they came timidly
+back, watching to see that the man did not catch them."
+
+Minnie laughed heartily. "I suppose," she exclaimed, "that she ran away
+to escape being tied, as our Leo used to when he wanted to go to
+church."
+
+"Yes; and she repeated the trick for several days. She was a very
+cunning lamb, and would watch her chance, standing on her hind feet, to
+eat the bark from the young trees, and pull the slender twigs down
+toward the ground with her fore leg."
+
+"Can you remember any thing more about her?" timidly inquired Minnie.
+
+"Dinner is ready," answered the lady, smiling. "We shall not have time
+now; but Harry may tell you about Hatty."
+
+Harry stood up very straight, his bright eyes sparkling with pleasure;
+then, with a motion peculiar to him, tossing the curls from his
+forehead, and turning to Minnie, he said, in an animated tone, "Every
+morning I have my lessons with mamma; but Hatty doesn't like me to
+study, because she wants to be playing, you know. At first, she cried so
+much that I couldn't get on at all well, until mamma put my stool close
+to the door. You see it is glass, and she could look through the panes.
+So she lies on the piazza outside, with her nose as close as she can get
+it to me."
+
+"And her loving eyes fixed on his face," added mamma, smiling at
+Minnie's earnest gaze.
+
+"Isn't it funny," cried the boy, leaning toward his young visitor, "for
+her to sit still till my lessons are learned, so that I can say them all
+by heart?
+
+"O, mamma!" he shouted, "there's Hatty now."
+
+And, true enough, the affectionate creature had followed them around the
+house to the dining room, and there she stood butting against the
+glass, to get to her dear little master.
+
+"I do think," cried Minnie, enthusiastically, "that Hatty is the very
+best lamb I ever saw."
+
+
+
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.
+
+16mo.
+
+MRS. LESLIE'S JUVENILE SERIES.
+
+16mo.
+
+FOR BOYS.
+
+  Vol.   I. THE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN.
+   "    II. PLAY AND STUDY.
+   "   III. HOWARD AND HIS TEACHER.
+   "    IV. JACK, THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER.
+
+FOR GIRLS.
+
+  Vol.   I. TRYING TO BE USEFUL.
+   "    II. LITTLE AGNES.
+   "   III. I'LL TRY.
+   "    IV. ART AND ARTLESSNESS.
+
+
+
+
+                       MINNIE'S PET HORSE.
+
+
+                               BY
+
+                      MRS. MADELINE LESLIE,
+  AUTHOR OF "THE LESLIE STORIES," "TIM, THE SCISSORS-GRINDER,"
+                              ETC.
+
+
+                          ILLUSTRATED.
+
+
+                             BOSTON:
+                        LEE AND SHEPARD,
+              SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
+                             1864.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note
+
+The following typographical errors were corrected:
+
+  Page  Error
+  16    crumbed changed to crumbled
+  48    their strength. changed to their strength."
+  109   adjoining shelter. changed to adjoining shelter."
+  143   companions, the changed to companions, the dog
+
+
+
+
+
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