Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-11-29
A LAMR.s FIRST DAY.
II Struggles Hard to Get onin The wor
and Sees Painful Sights.

About five minutes after . lamb Is Dor
he Is on his feet The unsteady cart
under him pox heayes 10 the righ'
, Surges up and then down, and whirl
and twirls with him while he stagCer
and struggles and twists one leg aroUn.
the other like a vine around q tree, o
else he spreads those members all on
until they look like the forks under
weather vane. He tumbles down TO
the fftieth time. and for the fitietl
time renews the fight to secure tina.
footing in the great world from which
only can be reached the life-giving milk
His INDEPENDENTLY if it is hei
frst-in her crazy anxiety to help
knocks him down. steps on him and does
without leaving out a possible excep-
tion-every thing she should not do,
while she leaves nearly every thing I'M
done that might help the little fellow to
sc, the desired nOuriShment 'Oh, the
poor, dea, little thing, isn't it too bad?'
says the sympathetic stranger.
THE COMPOUNDED pair Of idiots" frets
the impatient shepherd, who does not
care to drive them until The lamb finds
milk. In half an hour his sides bulge
out; and as the shepherd slowly urges
the old eve toward home the lamb goes
r%eeling and rolling along like an old tar
just ashore from a years voyage. About
the first error the lamb makes in life
ia 10 mistake the shepherd or his dog
Tor its mother, and many are the maneu-
vers that must be gone through with to
make the new arrival follow the right
party.
His next error is likely to be an at
tempt to walk on air when he conc to
a place whore he should 60 down hill.
His ten minutes experience in life has
made him believe that all the earth is q
level plane, and in broad daylight he
steps oil the top Of a hill Just as serene
~ as a man steps of the top landing of
the stairs in total darkness when he is
that the stairs are yet twenty
feet away, The result is a great sur
prise In each instance. The lamb picks
himself UP and continues down the hill;
he o o comes to the conclusion that
every thing is down hill in this life and
not on a dead level. Upon getting to
the foot of the hill he still tries to con.
tinue downward, and as a result runs
his nose into the ground and looks sur
prised again, He now comes to a place
to get up hill. and goes up just as Our
man starts to 60 upstairs in total dark-
ness when he thinks the stairs are still
twenty feet away.
Our lamb is now getting very suspic-
ious. He was pushed over and growled
at for following the dog when he
it was his mother; the shep-
herd kicked and abused him for follow
him; he tumbled down hill when he
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 q neigh.
hill. This is the most appalling
thing he has yet seer in life. He stands
IN the bright sunshine; twelve inches
ahead of him all tho world is black.
How shall he get over that terrible line?
must be worse than going down hill
Dr. up hill, or running after a dog that |
yrowls or q man that kicks. 1t surely
looks much more frightful than any of
things. His mother IS in the
shadow, and coaxes him to como along,
but he will not risk it; he stands on tho
edge and bawls at the top of his powers.
The shepherd with his big foot comes
to the rescue, and our little lamb is lift
from sunlight to shadow on the end
a No. 0 boot. He trots along after his
mother for a few yards and meets a new
littculty. This time tits from a shadow
10 sunlight. At this time he is about
one hour old; for a whole hour he has
been running his respirative, circulative
and locomotive powers as an independ-
ont being, and has become quito a lamb.
Just at this instant a carriage drives
along the road. His quick eye
sees 1t; he thinks, perhaps, 1t is his
mother, and that she Is running from
He strikes out after it. 1t is
what an hour has done for
In the way of developments; he runs
than the shepherd. Montana
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