The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-08-21
ONE HoUhQF LAMB LIFE.
PITFALLS THAT LIE IN THE PATH
OF THE YOUNG MUTTON.

! Has to Begin the Business of Life When
Five Minutes Old-Like Man he Often
Estimates Inaccurately, but the Shepherd
and the Dog Are There to Help Him.
About Ave minutes after the lamb is born
be Is on bis feet. The unsteady earth under
him now heaves to the right, surges up and
khen down. and 1t whirls and it twiris with
him while be staggers and struggles, ana
twists one leg around the other like q vine
around tree; or else he spreads those mem
bers all out until they look like the FORKS
| under a weather vane. He tumbles down
for the fiftieth time, and for the tiftieth time
renews the fight to secure that footing in the
GREAT world from which only can he reach
the life giving milk. His mother-particu-
larly if it Is her frst-ir her crazy anxiety to
help, knocks him down, steps on him. and
does-without leaving out possible excep-
tion-everything she should not do, while
she leaves nearly everything undone tha0
might help the little fellow 70 get the desired
| nourishment.
.Oh. the poor, dear little thing; isn't it too
bad," says the sympathetic stranger. The
confounded pair of idiotsI' frets the I'M
| patient shepherd, who does not care to drive
| then, until the lamb finds milk and gets
filed up"
| CHANGES HIS MIND OFTEN.
In half an hour his milk can is full: his
ides bulge out with surfeit of the pure
article warranted to stand the most rigid
| test for admixture Of Water. And as the
shepherd slowly urges the old eve toward
home, the lamb goes reeling and rolling
along like all old tar just ashore from a
| years voyage.
About the first error the lamb makes in life
Is to mistake the shepherd or. his dog for its
mother, aud many are the raneuvels that
must I've gone through with to make the new
arrival follow the right party. HIS EcXt er-
.or is likely to be an attempt to walk on air
when he comes to place where he should go
iowu hill His ten minutes experience in
ife has made him believe that all the earth
g a level plain, and in broad daylight be steps
| ,R the top Of hill just as serenely as man
neps Off the top landing Of the stairs in total
darkness when he is certain that the stairs
IRE vet twenty feet away. TIE result Is
zreat surprise to man and lamb In each In
stance.
The lamb picks himself up, and continues
iown the hill; he socn comes to the conclu-.
sion that everything is down the hill in this
life, and not on a dead level Upon getting
to the foot of the hill he still tries to continue
| downward, and as O result runs his nose into
the ground and looks surprised again. BE
now comes to place to get up hill and goes
up just as our man starts to go up stairs in
| total darkness when he thinks the stairs are
still twenty feet away.
Our lamb is now getting very suspicious.
| He Yves pushed over and growled at for fol-
lowing the dog when he thought it was his
mother; the shepherd kicked and abused him
for following him; he trunbled down hill
when he saw nothing unusual in the looks Of
the ground, and up hill again under similar
circumstances In this frame Of mind he
comes to a shadow cast by ueighboring hill
This is the most appalling thing he has yet
seen in life BE stands in the bright sunshine;
twelve inches ahead of him ell the world Is
black How shall he get over that terrible
liuef It must be worse than going down nil
or u hill, or running after dog that growls
or man that kicks 1t surely looks much
more frightful than any Of these things. His.
mother is in the shadow, and coaxes him to
come along, but he will not risk it-he stands
on the edge and bawls at the top of his pow
ers. The shepherd with his big foot comes to
the rescue, and our poor lamb is lifted from
sur,iSlt 4e sssaox q >tse.sHsS sHsS Of flaRbszc
nine boot
He trots along after his mother for few
yards and meets new difficulty. This time
It Is from shadow to sunlight. It looks tough;
the situations seems to present no eud Of diff
culties. He walks across the line with fear
and trembling, only to find it very simple and
easy, and concludes that things are not so bad
as they look. He has already begun to find
cut that things which seem easy in life lead
often to disaster, and torbidding things often
present no real danger.
THERE'S NOTHING EUNNER
At this time he is about one hour old; for
whole hour he has been running his respira-
tive, circulative and locomotive powers as an
independent being, and has become quite
.amb. Just at that instant carriage drives
rapidly along the road His quick eye sees it;
he thinks perhaps it is his mother, and that
she is running from danger. BE strikes out
after It. It Is wonderful what an hour has
lone for him in the way Of development; he
runs faster than the shepherd, faster than his
mother, and is in imminent danger Of getting
under the horses feet or the wheels Of the
! :arriage.
1t is here that the dog comes in play, if he
| understands hSs business He runs up along
side Of the lamb, pushes it over with his nose,
| jumps upon it and holds it down upon the
| ground with his nose until the shepherd comes
| up. The shepherd takes the lamb and stands
it upon its feet so that it can see its mother,
| who has come to within few feet He holds
| it until 1t sees its mother on a move and then
let's it 90. The old eve Gcks off the face of a
sadder and wiser lamb-lcts him have another
dose of liquid nourishment, and together they
| get home.
There is only one thing that IS 500 times as
| funny and provoking by turns as lamb, and
that is 500 lambs together when they are
about month old. Tie shepherd sits down
and watches the 500 lambs all in a bunch by
themselves, playing, running and froGcking,
! and he laughs. When he has tried, and tried
in vain, to get the same 500 across a bridge
or into corral he sits down again, but he
does not laugh this time.
A young lamb has no way Of telling which
eve is its mother and the mother only knows
which lamb IS her own by the scent. Hence,
while very young it is a bad plan to have too
many together, for the eve may be confused
by SO many lambs, or become partially indif-
ferent, and the lamb perish for want Of care.
| Nhen few weeks old. however, they know
each other by the sound of the voice. In a
band OF 2,CO0 or 5000 ewes, q eve may call
ner lamb, and the lamb will answer from the
other side Of the fock. They will 60 as
straight to each other, right through the
whole band, as they would if they were the
oily two animals for mile around-Mon-
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