Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-08-12

larly II 1t Is her irst-in her crazy anxiety
to help, knocks him down, steps on him,
and does-without leaving out possible ex-
ception-everything she should not do,
while che leaves nearly everything undone
that might help the little fellow to get the
desired nourishment.
ooh, the poor, dear little thing; isn't 1t too
bad, )" says the sympathetic stranger. "The
confounded pair of idiotsl" frets the impa-
tient shepherd, who does not care to drive
them until the lamb finds milk and "eets
filed up"
In half an hour his milk can is full; his
sides bulge out with a surfeit of the pure ar.
ticle warranted to stand the most rigid test
for admixture of water. And as the shep-
herd slowly urges the old eve toward home,
the lamb goes reeling and rolling along like
an 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, and many are the manoeuvres
that must be gone through with to make the
new arrival follow the right party. His next
error is likely to be an attempt to walk on
air when he comes to place where he should
go down hill. His ten minutes experience
in life has made him believe that all the
earth is level plain, and in broad daylight
he steps off the top of a hill just as serenely
as a man steps off the top landing of the
stairs in total darkness when he is certain
that the stairs are yet twenty feet away
The result is great surprise to man and
lamb in each instance.
The lamb picks himself up and continues
down the hill; he soon comes to the conclu-
sion that everything is down 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 result runs his nose into
the ground and looks surprised again. He
now comes to place to get up hill, and goes
up just as our man starts to 60 up stairs in
total darkness when he thinks the stairs are
still twenty feet away. ..-
Our lamb is now getting very suspicious.
He was pushed over and growled at for fol-
lowing the dog when ne thought 1t was his
for following him; he tumbled 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 q shadow cast by neighboring
hill. This is the most appalling thing he
has yet seen in life. He stands In the bright
sunshine; twelve inches ahead of him all the
world is black. How shall he get over that
terrible linea 1t must be worse than going
down hill. or up hill, or running after dog
that growls or man that kicks. It 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 powers. The shepherd with
his big foot comes to the rescue, and our
poor lamb is lifted from sunlight TO shadow
on the end of number nine boot.
He trots along after his mother for a
| few yards and meets new difficulty. This
time it is from shadow to sunlight l,
| looks tough; the situation seems to present
no end of difficulties. He walks across the
line with fear and trembling, only to find 1t
| very simple and easy, and concludes that
| things are not SO bad as they look. He has
| already begun to find out that things which
| seem easy in life lead often to disaster, and
forbidding things often present no real dan.
ger.
At this time he is about one hour old; fol
a whole hour he has been running his respi-
rative, crculative and locomotive powers as
an independent being, and has become quite
| lamb. Just at that instant a carriage
drives rapidly along the road. His quicl
eye sees it; he thinks perhaps 1t is his moth
er, and that she is running from danger. FL
strikes out after it. It ia wonderful what al
hour mas done for him in the way of devel
opment; he runs faster than the shepherd
faster than his mother, and is in imminen
danger of getting under the horses feet o
| the wheels of the carriage.
| 1t is here that the dog comes In play II b
| understands his business. He runs u
alongside of the lamb, pushes it over wit
, | his nose, jumps upon 1t and holds it dow
! upon the ground with his nose until th
shepherd comes up. The shepherd takes tn
lamb and stands it upon his feet SO that
can see its mother, who has come up t
| within a few feet He holds it until 1t see
its mother on move and then let's it go
The old eve Hcks off the face of saddle
| and wiser lamb-lets him have another dos
| of liquid nourishment and together they &c
| home.
Il There is only one thing that is five hun
dred times as funny and provoking by turn
as q lamb, and that Is five hundred lamb
together when they are about month old
The shepherd sits down and watches the fv
hundred lambs all In bunch by themselves
playing, running and frolioking, and b
laughs When he has tried, and tried II
vain, to get the same FIVE hundred across
bridge or into corral he sits down again
but he does not laugh this time.
A young lamb has no way of telling whie
eve ia Its mother, and the mother onl
knows which lamb is her own by the seen
Hence, while very young it Is q bad plan
have too many together, for the eve may /
confused by 30 many lambs, or become pal
TALLY Indifferent, and the lamb perish fc
want of care. Whsn few weeks old, how
ever, they know each other by the sound {
the voice In band of two or three thou
sand ewes, eve may call her lamb. and tn
lamb will answer from the other side of th
flock. They will go as straight to each othel
right through the whole band, as they woul
If they were the only two animals for mil
around.