The San Francisco call., 1909-03-06
The Dancing Lamb

took out his flute and began to play.
Then the lamb began to dance. and
since she could not free herself from
the lamb the girl had TO dance, too.
Just around the corner a woman was
putting bread in the oven of her kitch-
en- The door of the kitchen was open
and the woman happened to look up
and see the lamb and the girl dancing
"Oh, what a silly girls' said the
woman, and. running out of her house.
she cried: Go home and behave your
SELF YOU foolish girl. I know you;
you are NeighbOr Joachim's daughter
and I know we'll he would not have
YOU dancing in the street with foolish
lamb"
Nevertheless the lamb and girl kept
right on dancing, and this so angered
the woman that she took the bread
dough which she had been about to
put in the oven and struck the girl
over the shoulders with it,
Then a strange thing happened. for
the dough stuck to the girl and the
woman to the dough and the lamb
carried them all off
After they had gone on a little fur
ther with this strange procession they
came 70 church Here the lad began
20 play, the lamb began TO dance. and
on the lambs fleece the girl and on the
girls back the dough. and at the end
or, the dough the woman. Then the
priest was coming from his house. and
seems what was going on. began to
scold them and bid them go home and
Hol De 50 FOOLISH. As words were OF
no avail ne hit the woman a sound
Whack on her back with his cane when
10 his surprise the cane stuck 70 tba
woman and he to the end of his cane
WIN TINS nice company the lad went
on and toward dark reached the roval
20 lUusn ana took lodgings at the end
- eIie Town Tor the night with an old
woman, What news is there?" said
,-a Ne Inc old woman told him they
were IN very great sorrow for fbe
KING daughter was very i'll and tbar
no physician could heal her.
nat can be the matter?' said the
Well'' said the old woman. .ff sba
.Sould oe made 10 laugh she would be
Detter at once. but no one bas 49,.
able to make her smile
Moreover.' said the old woman ~tba
King himself had issued that YER, S,,,
proclamation stating that who ever
nlaue her laugh should have her for
MS wife and share the royal power
me lad with the lamb could scarcelv
wait until daylight. so anxious was he
10 try MS fortune. for he was perfectlv
sule tHdl MS golden lamb would help
the melancholy little princess hack ~
failed her. 0'So nao
In the morning he presented himself
20 the KING and was gracfouslv re-
eeived- The unhappy princess sat there
IN her robes OF state. but looking so
melancholy that even light beartel
Johann could hardly keep from crying
however, nothing daunted. the lad
peSan to play the flute. the lamb to
dance. on the lambs fleece the girl. on
the girls back the dough. at the end
or the dough- the woman on the
Woman's back the cane. and at the end
Of the cane the priest. When the
princess saw this sight she burst out
laughing, which made the lamb so glad
that it shook everything of its back.
and the lamb. the girl the woman and
the priest all danced for ioy
The king married his daughter to the
shepherd. the priest was made court
chaplain the woman court bakeress ana
the girl lady in waiting to the princess
Cruz. age 10 years.
Donald Mcpherson. box 21, Kentheld.
Alvine West. Elk postofice. age 3
years
Antoinette Meagher. 326 Valley straa.
San Francisco. age 8 years
Raymond smith, 93f Chestnut street
Alameda; ase years
Franklin Maley, SOnoma. age 10
years.
Kathleen de Bons. 5sS Fulton street
san francisco. age years
Donna Lessett. Santa Rosa, age 10
Louise Leonard Pitcher. Halfnooh
Edward Rosberg. 1855 Twentietb
street city. age years. -"
kenAeth Green. Crockett. Cal. age :
Kenneth Biggart. 2234 Encinal ava-
nue.. Alameda. age years
Josspnlne Pene. box 70, South San
.,.,. lea Jorgensen. 1887 Dolores street
Eta BesthOrn 26q5 NIfss;or
city. ge years street.
~ FraneeS t.l Anderson. 1123 Second ave-
nue., oakland. age years
E1uialia Wright. Fairfield age vaa-~
arthur Lundblad. 1O4 Trn1Es.7,
street. san Francisco. age Q years
Cnarl1e Steele, Marshall are "a
years ~So ~