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+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 373px;">
+<img src="images/illus_001.jpg" width="373" height="500" alt="Sheep and Lambs." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Sheep and Lambs.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;">
+<img src="images/illus_002.jpg" width="340" height="500" alt="Violet Stories" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='adtitle'>Bessie's Country Stories.</div>
+
+<div class='center'>SIX VOLUMES.</div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Bessie books">
+<tr><td align='left'>THE SHEEP AND LAMB.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE YOUNG DONKEY.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE LITTLE RABBIT-KEEPERS.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE COCK OF THE WALK.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE COWS IN THE WATER.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>THE YOUNG ANGLER.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class='center'>Bessie's Country Stories.</div>
+
+<h1><span class='small'>THE</span><br />
+SHEEP AND LAMB.</h1>
+
+<div class='author'>BY THOMAS MILLER.</div>
+
+<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /><i>ILLUSTRATED.</i><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+New York:<br />
+SHELDON AND COMPANY.<br />
+1871.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">By SHELDON AND COMPANY,</span><br />
+In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">District of New York.</span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Electrotyped at the<br />
+BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,<br />
+No. 19 Spring Lane.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/illus_006a-title.png" width="300" height="65" alt="The Sheep and Lamb." title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>THE PET LAMB.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 110px;">
+<img src="images/illus_006-w.png" width="110" height="125" alt="W" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br />HERE you see the square
+church-tower, in the picture
+of the "Sheep and
+Lamb," stands the pretty
+village of Greenham, hidden behind
+the trees. The sheep and lambs
+that appear so little, because they
+are such a way off, are grazing on
+Greenham Common. The two that
+are so near you, and the pet lamb,
+round the neck of which the little<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>
+boy has placed his arm, are in a
+small paddock, often called a croft,
+close, or field, that is separated
+from the Common by a bank, on
+the top of which the little child sits
+who is feeding the sheep. The girl
+holding the child, and the boy looking
+over his shoulder, live at Greenham,
+and have come across the
+Common to ask how Johnny's father
+is, and to look at his pet lamb.
+You will notice that Johnny looks
+very grave and sad; and well he
+may, for his father has met with an
+accident, and has not been able to
+do any work for several weeks, and
+is so poor that he will be forced to
+sell his two sheep and Johnny's pet<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>
+lamb to pay the rent of his cottage.
+You cannot see the cottage in the
+picture, nor anything but a bit of
+the little field that lies at the back
+of it, in which the boy sits fondling
+his lamb. That girl is servant in a
+great farm-house, though she does
+very little besides looking after the
+children and feeding the poultry,
+for they keep great strong servant
+girls where she lives, to milk, and
+brew, and cook, and wash, and
+clean, and make butter and cheese
+in the dairy. She is a girl with a
+very feeling heart, and the two boys
+she has brought across the Common
+are very fond of her, and many a
+merry romp do they have together.</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"So, father is not able to get
+about yet," she says to Johnny,
+"and he is going to sell your pet
+lamb to pay the rent? I am so
+sorry, Johnny, and wish I were a
+rich lady; then your lamb should
+not be sold. But I am only a poor
+girl, and have but a shilling a week
+and my victuals." The tears stood
+in Johnny's eyes, and he folded the
+lamb tighter in his arms, and said,
+"It's a deal fonder of me than our
+Gip, for he runs away from me, and
+barks at everything he sees. It
+follows me everywhere, and licks
+my face and hands, and if I pretend
+to run away and hide myself,
+it stands and looks about, and bleats<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+for me, just as it used to do when it
+was quite a little thing, and wanted
+its mammy. Father says I mustn't
+cry; he hopes he shall get well
+soon, and next spring I shall have
+another pet lamb, and he won't sell
+that until it's a great fat sheep.
+But I can't help it; and I shall
+never have another little lamb I
+shall be so fond of as this, shall
+I?" And he drew the lamb closer
+to him, and looked very tenderly at
+it when he said "Shall I?" and the
+lamb went "ba-a-a," as if it said,
+as well as it could, "No, never;"
+then it lay down, with its pretty
+head on his arm.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll tell you what I'll do,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+Johnny," said the little boy who
+stood behind his brother close to the
+tree, "I'll give you one of my
+lambs, for father has given me two
+to do what I like with; then your
+father can sell it, for it's bigger
+than yours, and you can still
+keep your own pet lamb. Come
+with me, Polly, and help to drive
+it here, and make it jump over the
+bank; then you won't cry, will
+you, Johnny?"</p>
+
+<p>"No," said Johnny, crying harder
+than ever, for the kindness of the
+rich farmer's little son touched
+Johnny's tender heart as much as
+the sorrow he felt for the loss of his
+lamb, which he came to bid farewell<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>
+to, as the butcher was coming with
+his cart in the cool of the evening to
+take it away, along with its mother
+and another fat sheep.</p>
+
+<p>Polly, who was a strong girl of
+her age, at once snatched up the
+little boy, who was sitting on the
+bank feeding the sheep, and ran off
+with him in her arms to help
+Charley to drive his lamb off the
+Common&mdash;where it was feeding&mdash;into
+the little close, to be in readiness
+for the butcher when he came
+with his cart. They had some
+trouble with it, for it had not been
+petted like Johnny's; and Charley
+had many pets that he cared more
+for than he did for his lambs.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When it was driven off the Common,
+and made to jump over the
+bank into the paddock where
+Johnny still sat fondling his pet
+lamb&mdash;and not until then&mdash;that
+artful little Polly said, "Ought not
+you to have asked your father first,
+Master Charley, before you gave
+Johnny one of your lambs?"</p>
+
+<p>"What should I ask father for,
+when he gave them to me to do
+what I liked with&mdash;sell, or give
+away, or anything?" asked Charley;
+and there was a proud expression in
+his handsome face, which brought
+the color to Polly's cheeks, and
+made her feel that she had no right
+to interfere, though she had "aided<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span>
+and abetted," inasmuch as she had
+helped to drive the lamb into the
+little close.</p>
+
+<p>"I shall look out to-night for
+butcher Page's white horse," said
+Charley, "and when he passes our
+door, cut across the corner of the
+Common, and be here before him,
+Johnny, and help to drive the sheep
+and lamb out, and tie yours up to
+the apple-tree until he's gone.
+Don't say anything to your father
+and mother until butcher Page has
+gone."</p>
+
+<p>Johnny promised he wouldn't, so
+went in-doors, his lamb following
+him, while the one Charley had
+given him made himself quite at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span>
+home, and began nibbling away at a
+little patch of white clover which
+grew in one corner of the field.</p>
+
+<p>Johnny's father was a hard-working
+laboring man; but farm labor
+is so poorly paid for in most country
+places, that it is very difficult to save
+up more than a few shillings against
+sickness or accidents, which often
+happen unaware, as was the case
+with him; for the shaft-horse chanced
+to back suddenly, as he was going
+to fasten a gate, and the wagon
+wheel went over his foot and crushed
+it. He had not been able to work
+for several weeks; and though his
+master was kind to him in sending
+little things from the farm, he knew<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span>
+he must not expect him to pay his
+rent, and to do that he had to sell
+his two sheep and Johnny's pet
+lamb for a few pounds to butcher
+Page. He was a kind-hearted
+man; for as soon as the lamb entered
+the cottage it went up to him, and
+as he patted its pretty head, he
+sighed heavily, for he felt almost as
+much troubled at parting with it as
+did little Johnny.</p>
+
+<p>You will seldom see a dumb animal
+go up to anybody, of its own
+accord, that is not kind to all God's
+creatures. They seem to know
+who loves them and who does not.
+Dogs, more than any other animals,
+seem gifted with the power of finding<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+out those who are kind and
+those who are not. One strange
+boy shall pat a dog, and he will
+begin to wag his tail, while he
+growls if another boy only strokes
+him. I always like the boy best
+that the dog is pleased with. Johnny's
+lamb laid its head on his
+father's knee, and while he patted
+it he shut his eyes, as if it were
+painful for him to look at the
+pretty creature necessity compelled
+him to part with. It then went
+bleating up to Johnny's mother to
+be noticed, and as she stooped down
+to kiss it she had to "button up"
+her eyes very tight indeed to keep in
+the tears. Johnny kept his secret<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>
+faithfully, and said not a word about
+the lamb his friend Charley had
+given him.</p>
+
+<p>Instead of running across the
+corner of the Common in the evening,
+Charley and Polly, with his
+little brother sitting in her lap, came
+riding up to the cottage in the cart
+with the butcher; for Mr. Page had
+to call at the great farm-house on
+his way through Greenham about
+some fat calves he wanted to purchase
+of Charley's father. Polly
+asked if the children might ride
+with him, for she was very anxious
+about Johnny's pet lamb; and, as
+she said to Charley, "I shan't feel
+that it's quite safe until I see Mr.
+Page drive back without it."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Johnny's father was too lame to
+assist in getting the sheep and lamb
+into the cart, so Polly and Charley
+drove them out of the small close
+behind the cottage, while Johnny
+minded the little boy, who sat with
+his tiny arms round the lamb's neck,
+kissing it, and saying "so pitty,"
+for he could not talk plain enough
+to say "pretty."</p>
+
+<p>"Surely this can't be the same
+lamb I bargained for a week ago,"
+said the butcher, as he was about to
+lift it into the cart; "why, it's got
+four or five pounds more meat on
+his back. You must give Johnny
+this shilling for himself. It's a
+much fatter lamb than I took it to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span>
+be," and he gave the shilling for
+Johnny to his mother, after looking
+around, and not seeing the
+boy. Having paid the mother for
+the sheep and lamb, he drove off,
+and the poor dumb animals stood
+quiet, and seemed as happy in the
+cart as children who are only going
+away for a drive. How different
+they would look when put into the
+shed adjoining the slaughter-house,
+where so many sheep and lambs had
+been driven in to be killed.</p>
+
+<p>What a blessing it is that we do
+not know beforehand what is going
+to happen to us, for if we did, how
+wretched we should feel, counting
+the hours and days until the evil<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+befell us, and living a life of misery
+all the time. Nor is it ourselves
+alone that would be made miserable,
+but our parents, and all who love
+us; so that, however painful death
+may be, it is one of God's greatest
+mercies not to let us know when
+death, which comes to all, will come.
+This is not hard to understand, if
+you will be very still, and forgetting
+everything else, think about it.</p>
+
+<p>The two sheep and the little
+lamb, as they were driven along the
+pretty country road in the butcher's
+cart, could have no more thought
+that they were carried away to be
+killed, than you would that some
+terrible accident might happen to
+you, if taken out for a ride.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>No sooner had the butcher driven
+off than Polly ran into the little
+meadow, clapping her hands, and
+exclaiming, "All right, Johnny!
+he's gone!" then she stooped down
+and kissed the pretty lamb, which
+began to lick her brown, sun-tanned
+cheek, as if to show how grateful it
+was; for the few kind words she had
+uttered were the means of saving it
+from the butcher's knife.</p>
+
+<p>When the children returned home
+across the Common, and after they
+had finished their supper of home-made
+brown bread and rich new
+milk, Charley went and stood between
+his father's legs, for the rich
+farmer was smoking his pipe, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+had a jug of ale of his own brewing
+before him. Charley was deep
+enough to know that when his father
+was enjoying his pipe and jug of
+ale, after the day's labor was done,
+he was always in a good humor, and
+while Polly stood fidgeting and
+watching him, biting the corner of
+her blue pinafore all the time, and
+"wishing it was over," Charley
+looked up with his bold truthful
+eyes, and said, "Please, father, I
+gave Johnny Giles one of my
+lambs to-day to sell to the butcher,
+so that he might keep his own,
+which he is so fond of; it's such a
+pet, and he was crying so, and Mr.
+Page would have taken it away to-night<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span>
+in his cart if I hadn't given
+him mine, for you know Johnny's
+father is lame, and poor, and can't
+do any work, and so had to sell his
+two sheep and&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"Johnny's pet lamb too," said
+the farmer, interrupting him, but
+still stroking Charley's hair while
+speaking. "Well, Charley, it was
+your own lamb, to do what you
+liked with; but I should have liked
+Johnny's father better if he had
+sent word to let me know that he
+had sold your lamb instead of his
+own."</p>
+
+<p>"Please, sir, he doesn't know
+that butcher Page didn't take away
+Johnny's lamb in the cart," said<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span>
+Polly, rushing to the rescue, "because
+we kept it in the little croft,
+and drove Charley's lamb out instead,
+for little Johnny had been
+crying so all day that it made us all
+sorry to see it."</p>
+
+<p>"I felt sure you had had a finger
+in the pie, Polly," said the farmer,
+looking kindly on his little maid,
+and well knowing how fond she was
+of his dear children. "And now,
+sir," continued the farmer, looking
+at Charley as sternly as he could,
+while a pleasant smile played about
+his mouth, plainly showing that the
+knitted brows were but drawn down
+in make-believe anger, "this is the
+way I shall punish you." Polly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span>
+saw the smile, and knew it was all
+right, and that there would be no
+punishment at all, though little
+Charley looked rather frightened.
+"As you have given one of your
+lambs away to please yourself, you
+must give the other away to please me.
+Drive it into Mr. Giles's little croft
+to-morrow morning, and, as it might
+miss its mother, let her go with it;
+then, when the lamb grows to be a
+sheep, Johnny's father will have two
+sheep again besides his pet lamb.
+Now kiss me, and say your prayers
+to Polly, and be off to bed." "O,
+I'm so glad!" exclaimed Polly,
+clapping her hands, while the tears
+stood in her eyes, as she came up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span>
+to take Charley away from his father.</p>
+
+<p>"I'm sure you are, Polly, for
+you've a kind heart," said the farmer,
+kissing the little maid as well, "and
+now be off with you;" and five
+minutes after he was busy examining
+his stock-book, and seeing how
+many fat bullocks, heifers, calves,
+sheep, and lambs he had ready for
+market, and thinking no more of
+the value of the ewe he had ordered
+to be driven to the little croft of the
+lamed laborer, than he did of the
+second jug of ale he had sent one of
+his servants to draw from the cask.</p>
+
+<p>Now Polly, though but a poor
+cottager's daughter, and having only,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+as she had said, "a shilling a week
+and her victuals" as wages at the
+rich farmer's was a thoughtful
+little maid; and fearing that Johnny's
+father and mother might be unhappy
+when they found that Charley's
+lamb had been sold instead
+of their own, she set off full run
+to Mr. Giles's cottage, before she
+went to bed, to tell them all about
+the sheep and the other lamb which
+she and Charley were to drive into
+the close in the morning, and how
+pleased her good master was at
+what Charley had done.</p>
+
+<p>Johnny was seated, fast asleep, on
+a little rush hassock, with his head
+on his mother's knee, and one arm<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+round the neck of the pet lamb,
+which was coiled up before the fire;
+and when she had made known
+the good tidings, and kissed both
+Johnny and his lamb, she started
+off back as fast as she came, for
+the bats were already flying about,
+snapping at the insects, and she
+heard an owl hooting from the trees
+that overhung the road she was
+running along.</p>
+
+<p>No one lay down to sleep in the
+beautiful village of Greenham on
+that calm, sweet night, when spring
+was treading close on the flowery
+border of summer, with a more
+peaceful mind or happier heart than
+Polly; for she felt that her pity for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span>
+Johnny's sorrow, caused by the
+thought of his so soon losing his
+pet lamb, had also been carried to
+the heart of little Charley, and that
+but for the words she had spoken
+the pet lamb would then have been
+shut up at the end of the slaughter-house,
+where, no doubt, poor lambs
+were hanging up that had been
+killed. Pretty thing! How could
+butcher Page find in his heart to
+kill them, so kind a man as he was?
+And Polly fell asleep while trying
+to puzzle out whether it was not as
+sinful to kill a sheep as a little lamb,
+and wishing that roasted lamb was
+not so nice to eat as it was, with
+mint sauce.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE GREEDY DUCKLING.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 372px;">
+<img src="images/illus_032-dec.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="Duck and Ducklings." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Duck and Ducklings.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 106px;">
+<img src="images/illus_031-a.png" width="106" height="125" alt="A" title="" />
+</div><div class='unindent'><br />LTHOUGH you cannot
+see her cottage, you can
+look at a portion of the
+brook that runs by the
+end of her garden, in which the old
+white duck and three of her little
+ducklings are swimming, while the
+remainder have left the water and
+got out on the grass to be fed.
+That is the old woman's little granddaughter
+who is holding the duckling
+in both her hands, and kissing
+it, and the other is her companion,
+who lives over the hill where you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+see a little morsel of blue sky between
+the overhanging leaves, and
+who has come all the way along
+that footpath to play with her, and
+feed the little ducklings. If you
+notice the duckling the granddaughter
+is petting, you will see it has
+got its eye on the food in the little
+girl's hand; and if you could read
+its thoughts, you would find it
+was saying to itself, "O, bother
+your fuss and stew! I wish you
+would put me down, and let me
+gobble up some of that nice new
+bread before it is all gone.
+Kissing, and patting, and nursing
+me won't fill my belly, I can tell
+you; though it's all well enough,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+when I've eaten until I'm full to the
+very top of my neck, to snuggle to
+you and be kept nice and warm,
+while I have a good long nap."
+You can see by its eye it's a sly
+little duckling; and though it pretends
+to be so fond of the child,
+lying still and such like, yet it's all
+of a fidget to get down, and quite
+envies the little ducklings that are
+feeding out of the other girl's hand.
+That is the Greedy duckling.</div>
+
+<p>Now the grandmother is such a
+funny little old woman, having one
+leg shorter than the other, which
+causes her to go up and down as she
+walks! The villagers call her Old
+Hoppity-kick, because, when she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>
+walks with her horn-handled stick
+and moves it along, she goes "hop,"
+and when she moves both her feet
+she goes "hoppity," and when she
+pulls up her short leg to start
+again, she gives a kind of a little
+"kick" with it; so that what with
+her long leg, her short leg, and her
+stick, the noise she makes when she
+walks rather fast sounds a good
+deal like "hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick."</p>
+
+<p>Then she has a sharp, hooked
+nose, not much unlike the beak of
+a poll parrot; and she wears round
+spectacles with horn rims, and these
+she always calls her "goggles;"
+and, besides all this, she is hump-backed,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span>
+and has an old gray cat
+that is very fond of jumping on
+her hump, and sitting there when
+she goes out into her garden, looking
+about him as well as she does,
+as if to see how things are getting
+on. She talks to her old cat, when
+she has no one else to speak to,
+just as she does to her granddaughter.</p>
+
+<p>She came up one day with her
+stick in her hand, her goggles on,
+and the gray cat sitting on her
+hump, where he went up and down,
+down and up, at every "hoppity-kick"
+she gave, and stopped to
+watch her granddaughter feed
+the ducklings. "Why, what a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span>
+greedy little duckling that is beside
+you," said granny, pointing to it
+with her horn-handled stick; "he
+doesn't seem willing to let his little
+brothers and sisters have a taste of
+the food you are giving them, pecking
+and flying at them, and driving
+them off in the way he does. I'm
+sure he is a nasty, greedy little
+duckling, and when he gets big
+enough I'll have him killed."</p>
+
+<p>"I don't think he's so greedy,
+granny," replied the little maid,
+taking him up in both her hands,
+and kissing him; "it's only because
+he's so fond of me, and jealous of
+the other ducklings when they come
+close to me. Look how still he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span>
+lies, and how he nestles up to me!
+He's very fond of me."</p>
+
+<p>"Humph; fond of you for what he
+can get, like a good many more in
+the world," said old Granny Grunt,
+while the gray cat gave a "mew,
+mew," as if to say, "Right you are,
+old granny;" then off she went,
+"hoppity-kick, hoppity-kick," back
+again into her cottage, the hem of
+her quilted petticoat making bobs
+up and down all the way she went.</p>
+
+<p>"You're not a greedy little thing,
+are you, ducky?" said the little
+maid to the duckling, kissing it
+again, when her grandmother and
+the cat had gone. "It's because
+you love me so, isn't it? and don't<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span>
+like any of the other little ducklings
+to be noticed, do you?"</p>
+
+<p>"O, what a silly Sukey you are!"
+thought the Greedy Duckling, laying
+its head on one side of her face,
+as if to show it was so fond of her it
+didn't know what to do. "Do you
+think I would make such a pretended
+fuss over you as I do if you didn't
+give me three times as much
+to eat as any of the rest of the
+ducklings get? Not I. I often feel
+as if I should like to bite a bit off
+the end of your silly little nose when
+you are kissing and fondling me. Do
+you know I would much rather have
+my head under the water, and be
+poking about among the mud for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+worms, little eels, and frogs, and such
+like things, than have your lips so
+near me? Why, the other day you'd
+been eating onions; and though I
+dare say I shall smell strong enough
+of 'em some day, and sage too, as
+I've heard your old granny say
+when I have to be roasted, yet that
+time won't come yet for a long
+while, and I don't want to be reminded
+of my end before it does
+come. Why don't you empty your
+old granny's jam pots, or her honey
+jar; that smell wouldn't be so bad
+to bear as onions,&mdash;Fah!"</p>
+
+<p>Now you begin to see what a
+deal of truth there was in what old
+Granny Grunt said, and what a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+wicked and ungrateful duckling this
+was, to have such evil thoughts,
+pretending to be so fond of the little
+granddaughter all the time. It was
+quite as bad as if a naughty child,
+after having as many "goodies"
+given it as it could eat, made fun of
+the giver behind the back, while
+before the face it pretended to be all
+love, and honey, and sugar. It's
+deceit, that's what it is, done for
+what may be got; and if anything,
+deceit's worse than story-telling, as
+you pretend to be what you are not,
+and to feel what you do not, while
+a story once told is done with, if
+you don't tell another on the top of
+it, and have the honesty to confess<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+it was a story when close questioned
+and you speak the truth. But
+deceit! it's so dreadfully shocking!
+it's hypocrisy, and I know not what
+besides, as you have to keep it up,
+wear a mask, seem what you are
+not. O, dear! O, dear! I can't
+say how bad it is, it's so very bad.</p>
+
+<p>Now the Greedy Duckling knew
+which way the granddaughter came,
+and used to watch and wait for
+her, often a good way from the
+others, when she was coming
+with food; and if the little girl
+in the drawn and magenta-colored
+bonnet happened to be with
+her, she would say, "Look at the
+dear little duckling! Though it's so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span>
+fat it can hardly waddle, it couldn't
+stop till I came, but is so fond of
+me it's come to meet me!" Then
+she began to feed it, giving it as
+much as ever it could eat, while the
+other dear ducklings, that were
+waiting so patiently by the brook,
+hadn't even so much as a smell, until
+that nasty, greedy little wretch had
+been crammed full to the very throat.
+Let us hope he was often troubled
+with a touch of the bile as a just
+punishment for his greediness. He
+was now so fat that he used to fall
+asleep on the water, and the wind
+blew him on like a floating feather,
+while his little brothers and sisters
+were diving, and swimming, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span>
+playing, and splashing about, and
+having such jolly games as made one
+quite wish to join them on a hot
+summer's day. This was the first
+judgment that overtook him for his
+greediness: he was too fat to play,
+and if he tried, puffed and blew
+like a broken-winded horse, and
+was out of breath in no time; for
+his liver was not only out of order,
+but what little heart he had, and
+that wasn't much, was buried in
+fat.</p>
+
+<p>He now took to eating out of
+spite, so that there might be next
+to nothing left for the other little
+ducklings. Whether he was hungry
+or not, he would stand in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+centre of the food that was thrown
+down, and though he couldn't eat
+it himself, bite and fly at every
+duckling that attempted to touch a
+morsel. One of his little brothers
+one day went at him, and gave him
+"pepper," I can tell you; and when
+he found he'd met his match, what
+did the fat, artful wretch do but
+throw himself on his back, quacking
+out, "You ain't a-going to hit me
+when I'm down?"</p>
+
+<p>Now, selfish and greedy although
+he was, and disliked by the rest of
+the family, he had a little sister,&mdash;which
+was, that dear duckling you
+see swimming at the front of its
+mother, as if asking her if it may go<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+out of the water for a little time,
+and have a waddle on the grass, for
+it is a most dutiful duckling,&mdash;and
+this little sister was the only one of
+the family that treated the Greedy
+Duckling kindly, for she used to
+say, "Bad as he is, he's my brother,
+and it's my duty to bear with him."
+After a time, when, on account of
+his selfishness and greediness, the
+rest of the family had "sent him to
+Coventry," which means that they
+wouldn't have anything to do with
+him,&mdash;neither eat, drink, nor swim
+with him, nor even exchange so
+much as a friendly "quack,"&mdash;then
+it was that he began to appreciate
+the kindness and self-sacrifice<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+of his little sister, who would go
+and sit with him for the hour
+together, though he was too sulky
+at first even to "quack" to her.</p>
+
+<p>It so happened one day, when his
+pretty little sister had been talking
+to him, and telling him how much
+happier his life would be if he were
+more social, and how greatly his
+health would be improved if he ate
+less, that after saying, "I don't care
+if they won't have me amongst 'em;
+little Sukey gives me plenty to eat,
+and I can sleep well enough by
+myself, and much better than if they
+were all quacking about me; and
+though you come and stay with me,
+I don't ask you, nor I don't want<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>
+you; and I dare say you only do it
+to please yourself, and&mdash;&mdash;," before
+he could say another word, his
+little sister said, "Run, run!" for
+she had seen a shadow on the grass,
+and knew that a great hawk was
+hanging over them; and they had
+only just time to pop under the
+long, trailing canes of a bramble,
+before down the hawk came with
+such a sweep, that they could feel
+the cold wind raised by the flapping
+of his great wings, though he could
+not reach them for the bramble;
+nor did he try to get at them where
+they were sheltered, for the hawk
+only strikes his prey while on the
+wing, picking it up and keeping<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span>
+hold of it somehow, just as Betty
+does a lump of coal, which she has
+made a snap at, and seized with the
+tongs.</p>
+
+<p>"He would have been sure to
+have had you," said the little sister,
+after the hawk had flown away
+over the trees, "as you stood the
+farthest out, and are so fat; and
+I was so near the bramble, he
+would hardly have had room for
+the full spread of his wings, if he
+had made a snap at me."</p>
+
+<p>"I don't see that," replied the
+Greedy Duckling, "for as I'm so
+heavy, I think he would have been
+glad to have dropped me before he
+had reached his nest; while as for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+you, you're such a light bit of a
+thing, he would have carried you
+off as easily almost as he would a
+fly that had settled on his back."</p>
+
+<p>"But supposing he had dropped
+you after flying with you about six
+times the height of a tall tree; what
+use would you have been after you
+had fallen?" asked the little duckling.
+"Why, there would have
+been neither make nor shape in
+you, but you would have looked
+like a small handful of feathers
+somebody had thrown down on the
+place where oil had been spilt.
+Our dear old mother would not
+have known you, for you would no
+more have looked like what you are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>
+now, than a snail that a wagon
+wheel had gone over did before it
+was crushed, when he was travelling
+comfortably along the rut, and
+carrying his sharp-pointed house on
+his back."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, as I don't care much
+about my shape now, I suppose the
+thought of it would have troubled
+me less after I'd been killed," said
+the Greedy Duckling; "all I care
+for in this life is to have as much to
+eat as I can tuck under my wings,
+and not to have any noise about me
+while I'm asleep. As to washing
+myself much, that's a trouble,
+though I do manage to give my
+head a dip when I have a drink.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+There was an old man used to come
+and sit under the tree beside our
+brook, and read poetry; and sometimes,
+between sleeping and waking,
+I used to pick up a line or two; and
+I liked those best of all that said,&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+'I just do nothing all the day,<br />
+And soundly sleep the night away,'&mdash;<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class='unindent'>because they just suited me to a T."</div>
+
+<p>In vain did the clean little sister
+endeavor to persuade him to wash
+himself oftener, take more exercise,
+mingle more with his family, eat
+less, and try to make himself more
+respected; it was all of no use:
+instead of becoming better, he got
+worse.</p>
+
+<p>There was a hole under the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>
+wooden steps that led up to old
+Granny's cottage, and the Greedy
+Duckling, having found it out, used
+to creep in and watch until the old
+woman's back was turned, when
+Sukey would be sure to feed him;
+and very often he found food about,
+and helped himself to it, no matter
+what it was. One day Granny
+had made a custard, which she left
+standing on the table until the oven
+was hot, when the Greedy Duckling
+got at it, and after putting in his
+beak, and having had a good drink,
+he held his head aside, and said,
+"Bless me! though rather thick, it's
+very nice&mdash;not at all like muddy
+water. I can taste milk, and I'm<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span>
+sure there are eggs, also plenty of
+sugar; what that brown powder is
+floating at the top I don't know;
+but it must be spice, I think, for it
+warms the stomach. But here comes
+old Granny: I must hide under the
+table until she goes out, or I shall
+have another taste of that horn-handled
+stick of hers; then, if she
+hits me fairly on the leg, I shall
+have to go hoppity kick, as she does.
+I should like to finish that lot very
+much, it's so good. O, how comfortably
+I could sleep after in my
+little nest under the step! I'll keep
+a sharp eye on old Granny and her
+cat."</p>
+
+<p>The cat had been blamed for many<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span>
+things it had never touched, which
+the Greedy Duckling had gobbled
+up; and as he sat washing himself
+on the hob, which was beginning to
+be warm, Granny having lighted a
+fire to heat the oven, he spied the
+duckling under the table, and kept
+his eye on him without seeming to
+take any notice at all.</p>
+
+<p>"I shall be having the cat lapping
+up all this custard, if I don't put it
+somewhere out of the way," said
+the grandmother; "it will be the
+safest here;" and she put it into
+the oven without quite shutting the
+door, then went out to get some
+more wood to put under the oven,
+which was hardly warm.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"I shall have time enough to
+finish that lot before old Granny
+comes back, for she has the wood
+to break into short pieces," said the
+Greedy Duckling, who had seen
+her put the custard into the oven;
+so he just put out his wings and
+went in after it, and began pegging
+away at the custard, for it was a
+big oven and there was plenty of
+room.</p>
+
+<p>"I've been blamed often enough
+for things you've stolen and eaten,
+and I'll get out of that," said the
+cat; "for though I know you'll be
+out of the oven and hiding somewhere
+the instant you hear her
+hoppity kick on the cottage floor,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span>
+yet if she looks at the custard before
+she shuts the oven door, and
+finds half of it eaten, she'll say I've
+had it." So saying, the cat made a
+spring from off the oven on to the
+floor, and while doing so, his hinder
+legs caught the oven door, and,
+with the force of the spring, shut it
+to with a loud clap and a click, for
+the handle always caught when the
+door was pushed to sharp. Away
+ran the cat, and in came old Granny
+with the stick, which she began to
+shove under the oven, until in time
+it was so hot that she couldn't
+take hold of the handle to turn
+her custard without holding it
+with the dishclout. "Why, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+declare, if it isn't burnt to a
+cinder!" exclaimed old Granny,
+as she threw open the oven door;
+when there was such a smell of
+burnt feathers and fat as nearly
+knocked her down; for the fat
+duckling first ran all to dripping,
+which ran all over the oven bottom,
+and then got burnt black, it was so
+hot; and she never could, nor never
+did, nor never will make out what
+it was that made her oven in such
+a mess and spoiled her custard, nor
+what became of her Greedy Duckling.</p>
+
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+<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3>
+<p><a href="#Page_10">Page 10</a>, "shiling" changed to "shilling" (but a shilling)</p>
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+<p><a href="#Page_64">Page 64</a>, PICTURES AND STORIES OF ANIMALS... price missing in original.</p></div>
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author	Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org>	2025-10-14 20:11:39 -0700
committer	Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org>	2025-10-14 20:11:39 -0700
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