The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-26

Willie's careful attention to his ''in- ner man soon brought results. and the wrInkled hide which had covered his skeleton filled out until all the neigh bors remarked: My, how that lamb does grow.' He soon had Very re- spectable crop os wool, too, but pos sibly because he had caught cold, or be- cause of his unnatural diet, the wool began 10 fall out. This, of course, gave him a ragged appearance, and caused him to look disreputable once more, and it became the duty of every one who came near him to help him to help him quickly through this period of un- sightness by pulling out handful of the lose wool The performance of this duty was not confined to humans, either; for several times, on going out to the barn where the lamb spent the night, I surprised a meadow-mouse in the act of running off with big tuft of Willie's wool.
 Before he was half plucked, a lady came to stop at our house, and it was seen at once that affection in Willie had not been absent, but latent. All he had, apparently, was now lavished on this lady. and the lamb was seldom happy when she was out of his sight. if she went for a walk, Willie went with her, and if she sat down, the lamb would graze close by, or lie down on her skirt to chew his cud. If she went to sit on the piazza, Willie would lie down by her side until she arose and went away. When she went into the house Willie at once expressed his disappointment or displeasure by bleat- ing at the top of his lungs. If there was no response to to this outcry, the lamb would stand on his hind legs at one window after another, placing his fore feet on the sill, and searching earnetly for his mistress. Sometimes he would come to the door, and hammer at it with his fore feet; and if no one paid any attention to that, he would leap against the door with all his might making a noise which never failed to attract attention. Finally, if all his antics went unheeded, he would bound angrily away along the piazza with a series of jumps in which he gathered
 
 them down at once, with all the vigor of his now vigorous body.
 Willie never saw any of his own kind for some weeks after his arrival, when a flock of sheep was driven past the house on it's way to pasture. The lamb seemed to recognize the animals at once, and gravely placing himself in the procession, trotted along with the rest I had to bring him back, but he bleated and gazed wistfully after the other sheep until they were out of sight.
 The lamb has recently shown us that his intelligence is not of very high order. As I have told above he is in the habit of following his mistress about, and lying beside her on the piazza. He also runs to her for protee- tton, if any danger threatens. It so happens that she wears a shawl when sitting outside, and we have found that this shawl seems to answer WiIlie's purpose just as well as the owner of it. If the shawl Is out on a chair alone, the lamb will wake up, and lick it, and then lie down by the side of 1t, just as he does if the lady is present. Moreover if any one chases him, he seems to think he Is quite safe if he can get be- hind @ chair in which that shawl is 1y- ing. The other day, his mistress saw him lying by the shawl and, without calling him, went and sat down at the other end of the piazza. Willie pricked up his ears, and with rather doubtful air went over to where she sat. To see what he would do instead of betting him as usual, she gave him slap, and, bleating netular1tly the lamb ran back to the shawl as though for protection, and, lying down on the corner of it, he began to chew thecud with every indication of contentment.
 Willie is by no means a coward; he has a hard little head, and he knows how to use it. I took him into the en- closure to see the buffalo calves not long ago, and when one of them ad- vanced upon him with lowered head, Willie very soletnnly put his head down too, and took the first shock of battle like a soldier. But the next moment the calf looked so fierce, and snorted and kicked so much, that the lamb ran off out of danger. But he Is usually
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