The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-24


go on again He had been switching
his long ears about and putting two
and two together, however, and he
had not drawn the load along the
/ level road more than ten yards when
he came to a full stop for the third
.sWen, what have you to-say now o..
demanded the Peasant of the TraV-
.'only this was the reply, after a
/ careful inspection of load, harness and
Ass. eff this thing keeps on the ASS
/ will soon expect you to draw the cart,
fore, put on the CAD and run him ell
the rest of the way home"
Moral: There is such a thing as
making too much of a good thing
THE WOLF AND THE RAM.
One day the Wolf made up his
mind that lamb chops would be about
4 his size for dinner, and after doing up
4 the breakfast dishes and making up
his bed he set out in gay spirits to
| visit a flock of sheep and select his
! lambkin. He found, as he had hoped,
that the shepherd was temporarily
| absent, but greatly to his chagrin he
also discovered that the old Ram who
/ guarded the flock had had his horns
was alert and vigilant. The Wolf
therefore, decided to try strategy. and,
approaching the Ram. he said:
My dear old friend. / am glad to
nave round you without tFCuD1G. ne
Peasant who is chopping wood in the
forest wants to see you for a few
minutes I will take your place while
you are gone"
but I happen TO have sore foot
today and cannot go so far. Might
I depend upon you to bring the Peas
ant here %
quence." answered the Wolf and try
ing hard to smile over it. Il was told
the other day that you had some very
frisky lambs in your flock"
'WeH, they are not SO bad"
"And that some of them could out
run any wolf in the forest
4 shouldn't wonder.
ct rather doubt that, begging your
pardon. Cal up your best runner and
I will race him to the brook and
back
''They are all out of it today" re
piled the Ram. THE fact is, they
slept with their tails outdoors last
night and got them soaked with dew
Come some other day and Wen see
what can be done"
/ ''Sorry=very sorry, Mr.. Ram, but
/ just as you say. If there is a lamb
| in the flock who'd like a drink of cold
/ spring water I'd only be too glad TO
show him the spring down there be-
hind the bushes. don't suppose any
OF YOU know of it2''
II think not. but you see we all
/ had a drink of lemonade when we
/ first got up this morning, and that Will
/ last the day out. You are more than
kind"
Don't mention it. 1t is my nature to
i be kind and considerate to all, and to
no one more than a lambkin- That re-
/ calls the fact that the blind woman
/ living in the cottage by the roadside
I has promised to sing for one when
ever I bring him over. If it should so
/ happen now that you have a young
4 and innocent lamb in the flock who has
/ never heard that dear old song of Buff
4 falo Grass I shall take the greatest
pleasure in
4 know my friend. I know" inter
/ rupted the Ram. ''and can't begin to
tell you how extremely obliged I am.
! Unfortunately for all the lambkins,
ears last night. and they couldn't hear
the dear old song you refer to. Smother
| time. you know"
See here said the beaten Wolf. as
he lost his patience, I don't believe
| that you trust me-"
Dear me. but how sad! In what do
I seem to lack confidence2'
why, you've got steel tips on your
/ horns. If you trusted me as you
should. you would at once remove
/ them.
And on your part. you would have
4 come here without a tooth in your
head. You see"
The Wolf sprang in on him, hoping to
make a surprise. but the Ram received
him on the sharp points and wounded
him so that he ran away bowling griev-
/ ously-
Moral: well. I heard it ALL unused
/ the goat from the roof Of nearby
shed. and it's my opinion that the
simply because he couldn't make the
/ old Ram believe that huckleberries were
/ ripe in April Copyright, 1905, by T
c. McClure-)