The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-31
VENGEANCE OF A RAN.
BE Got Even with n Truck Driver, but
Tobacco Is Expected to Lay Him Low.

He Got Even with n Truck Driver, but
Tobacco Is Expected to Lay Him Low.
To drive a flock of sheep from one place to
another a leader is necessary, but the leader
need not necessarily be "A sheep. In this city
arc perhaps a dozen sheep slaughter houses.
and while each Of them has u leader, only one
uses q sheep. One reason for this is that sheep
soon become dissipatcd by life in the city. and
especially acquire n love for tobacco. At one
sheep slaughter house they long age abandoned
the plan OF having a sheep and now use a goat.
why" said the manager. IF Mary'3 little
lamb were to come to New York and stay a
week it would go back home with a naughty
little twinkle in its eye and n chaw Of old cigar
stumps in its mouth. The tobacco cats away
the coating OF a sleeps stomach in a short
time. and the animal soon dies. The best leader
is a goat or a good dog, but we prefer a goat.
because the goat walks with a steady. dignihed
gait-just fast enough for the sheep-while a
dog gets frisky once in a While and goes too
fast. Then there is danger of some OF the sheep
falling and being trampled on
At another slaughter house a ram Ia used for
a leader. He is a tough-looking customer. and
came from Virginia a year ago. While he was
being broken In he was worry meek and shy,
but soon took to the habits of the men about
him. He had not been in the, city W. weeks
the big building from top to bottom. gather
ing cigar stumps or ehews of tobacco. Efforts
to-day he is a confirmed tobacco consumer.
i M0Tnllsf ob ne does met not sm HIS he seems to en-,
has caused him to become something OF a
papers of tobacco in the back pocket Of their
draws near i like a sneak thief and gently pulls
it out. For this trick, II he is caught at t. he
not caught he gets the whole paper, Another
Of 6dl his t tricks is to open a new PAPER Of tobacco
this feat in remarkably short time. considering
that he works only with his lips. He is some
s an ias ST 4 f'f an ]ia sRa asy 81 t iSGissF Is f to FGSSni
by the experience, Of q truck driver who
s s%s' % ts the fHliHts sFT fs,I house tb about rsm every y
some tine, one day the Se"dd' riSEer t called i" a tru iSe
and apparently retired. leaving the ram victor.
t6e driver leaped from his hiding place and.
and AT and deposited him in a tank OF " wafer
Then, he jumped on his truck and drove away,
anu me incident was considered closed by all
He seemed 70 brood over his defeat and took
sG GGfbs NSnnF to to sqS% tR m9Fo W yiSSSr9ir ss than , aver Ever
OF gro9n sheep Just in from the country no
seemed to want to vent his pent.mp wrath on
also had a way Of meandering of toward every
one who wore n straw hat. and. after getting
walking slowly and sadly away again. He was
looking for hat driver, continually. All this
he started of on his investigating tours in
search sea- an 3Stt6t the driver he vas always followed by
%OO or DVO snecp, ana outlines he led them Il
ziEzag course and into dangerous places.
But, one. day the driver came around to the
slaughter house again. He evidently had forgot
ten all about the fun he had had with the ram.
Tut the ram remembered it with the same per-
s~istency that American sailors remember tho
Maine. The ram saw him FIRST and hid behind
~viously sheltered the driver, awaiting a
chance to charge on the enemy. The
head. and put his body into a siantinse
rosition 70 speak TO the boOkkecper through a
small opening In the glass partition. The ram
driver, The drivers head was showed through
IN" glass partition. and he let ont a howl thai
rescued with difficulty. as the ram charged
every ono who. came. near. But from that day
he has been n better leader. because he travels
a straight path and doesn't 20 searchinRIo n
man with a straw hat; but the tobacco habit
will soon lay him low. ~