Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — The Innocent Lamb. [ARTICLE]

The Innocent Lamb.

About the first error the lamb makes in life is .to mistake the shepherd or his dog for its mother, and many are the maneuvers that must be gone through with to make the new arrival follow the right party. His next error is likely to be an attempt to walk on air when he comes to a place where he should go down hill. His ten minutes’ experience in life has made him believe that all the earth is a level plain, and in broad daylight he steps off the top landing of the stairs in tot il darkness when he is certain that the stairs are yet twenty feet away, The result is a great surprise to man and lamb Tn each instance. The lamb picks himself up, and continues down the hill; he soon comes to the conclusion that everything is down hill in this life, and not on the dead level. Upon getting to the foot of the hill, he still tries to continue downward, and as a result runs his nose into the ground and looks surprised again, He now comes to a place to get up hill, and goes up just as our man starts up stairs in total darkness when he thinks the stairs are twenty feet away. There is only one thing that is 500 times as funny and provoking by turns as a lamb, and that is 500 lambs together when they are about a month old. The shepherd sits down and watches the 500 lambs all in a bunch by themselves, playing, running and frolicking, and he laughs. When he has tried, and tried in vain, to get the same 500 across a bridge, or in a corral he sits down again, hut he does not laugh this time.—Montana Wool Grower.