The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-08-09

Mistakes an1 Adventures u tn
First Day.
Montana Wed Grower.

It vhiri. and it twiris with then
while be staegers and struggles IN,
twists one leg around the other like
vine around tree: or else he spread
those members al out until they loo
like the forks under q weather ware
He tumbles down for the fiftieth time
and for the fiftieth time renews tn
fight TO secure that footing in tn
great. world from which only can b
reach the Efe-etving milk. Hi
mofher-particulariy if IL Is her first
In her crszy anxiety TO help, knock
him down. steps on him. and does
without leaving out possible excep
tion-everyshing she should not do
while she leaves nearly everything un
done that might help the little fellow
10 get the desired nourishment.
''Oh. the poor little thing. isn't i
100 bad, says the sympatheti,
stranger. The confounded pair o
frets the impatient shepherd
who does not care TO drive them unit
the lamb finds milk and ''gets fiiies
up"
In half an hour his milk can is full
his sides bulge out with . surfeis o.
the pure article warranted TO stand thu
most rigid test for admixture of water
And as the shepherd slowly urges thu
old eve toward home. the lamb goe.
reeling and rolling along like an ole
Tar inst ashore from q years voyage
About the first error the lamt
makes In life is 70 mistake the shep
herd or his dog for its mother, anc
many are the naneuvers that must
be gone through with 70 make
the new arrival follow the right party
His next error is likely to be an at
tempt TO walk on air when he come.
to place where he should go down
hill. His ten minutes experience ir
life has made him believe that all the
earth Is level plain. and in broad
daylight he steps of the top of q hill
Just a. sereneiy ~ q man steps of the
top landing OF tie stairs in total dark.
hess when be Is certain that the stairs
are yet twenty fee; away. Tue result
Is great surprise to man and lamt
IN each instance.
The lamb picks himself up and con
iinues down the hill; be soon comes
10 the conclusion that everything is
down hill IN this life, and not on a
lead level. Upon getting to the foot
1f the hill. he still tries TO continue
and as result runs bis
nose into the ground and looks sur.
prised again. He now comes to a
place to get up hill, and goes up just
~ our man starts to go up stairs in
.otal darkness when he thinks the
stairs are still twenty feet away.
Our lamb Is now getting very sus-
picious. He was pushed over and
,rowied at for following the dog when
ne thought il was his mother; the
shepherd kicked and abused him for
him; he tumbied down bill
= hen he saw nothing unusual
n the looks OF the ground,
AMI up hill again under SINH
ar circumstances. In this frame OF
mind he comes To shadow cast by a
hill. This is the most APP
FALLING thing he has yet seen in life.
lie stands in the bright sunshine /;
WE'VE inches ahead OF him all the
world is black. How shall he
ret over that terrible line
L must be worse than
,oing down bill. or up bill, or running
.fter a dog that growls or man that
kicks. IL surely looks much more
rightfnl than any of these things.
His mother is in the shadow. and
'oaxes him TO come along; but he
will not risk 1.-THE stands on the edge
lnd bawls at the top OF his powers.
The shepherd. with his big foot comes
% the rescue, and our poor lamb is
lifted from sunlight TO shadow Oh the
md OF "A No. . boot.
He trots along after his mother for
/ few yards and meets new difficulty.
This time it Is from shadow 10 sun
ight. 1t looks tough; the situation
'eems 10 present no end OF difficulties.
lie walks across the line with fear
md trembling, only TO find it very
imple and easy, and concludes that
hings are not so bad as they look. He
las already begun To find out that
Kings which seem easy in life lead
,ften TO disaster, and forbidding
hings often present no real danger.
At this time he Is about one hour
I'D for a whole hour, he has been run
ling his respirative, circuiative and
powers as an independent
icing, and has become quite a lamb.
nst at that instant a carriage drives
.apidly along the road. His quick
we sees il; he thinks perhaps ii " his
and that she Is running from
LANCER. He strikes ont after IL. Ii is
what an hour has done for
lin in the way of development; he
81 Sl ia ~
han it's mother, and is in imminent
LANCER of getting under the horses
eet or the wheels Of the carriage.
Ii is here that the dog comes IN play
1 he understands his business. He
-uns UP alongside of the lamb, pushes
I over with his nose. jumps upon II
md holds il down upon the ground
Nj h his nose until the shepherd
,omes up. The shepherd takes the
alnb and stands il upon its feet so
hat il can see It's mother who has
,ome ND tn within few feet. lie
holds il until 10 sees its mother on q
move and then lets it 20. The old
I'VE hicks off the face of sadder and
wiser lamb~-lets him have another
hose of liquid nourishnient, and to-
se,her hey get home.
There il only one thing that Is go
times as funny and provoking by
turns as lamb. and that Is so lambs
together when they are about = month
bid. The shepherd sits down and
watches the 500 lambs all In bunch
hv themselves, playing. running and
froIicking. and he laughs. When he
has tried, and tried in vain. ~ get The
same so across bridge or into a
corral he sits down again, but he does
not laugh this time.
A Young lamb has 10 way OF telling
which eve is its mother and the
mother only knows which lamb Is hei
own bv ia. scent. Hence, while very
Young IL is bad plan Ia have toe
many together, for the eve may IL
confused by 50 many lambs. or be
come partially indifferent. ard shs
lamb Perish fer the want OF care
When a few weeks old, however, the,
know each other by the sound OF ths
voice. In a band OF ZOO or 500
ewes. eve max call her lamb. aud
the lamb will answer from the othei
siaa of tle fieck. They viii 20 ~
straight so each other, right through
the " hole baud. a. they would II The,
were the only TWO animals Tor fnis'
around.