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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sheep and Lamb, by Thomas Miller
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+Title: The Sheep and Lamb
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+Author: Thomas Miller
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+[Illustration: SHEEP AND LAMBS.]
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+[Illustration: Violet Stories]
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+Bessie's Country Stories.
+
+SIX VOLUMES.
+
+
+    THE SHEEP AND LAMB.
+    THE YOUNG DONKEY.
+    THE LITTLE RABBIT-KEEPERS.
+    THE COCK OF THE WALK.
+    THE COWS IN THE WATER.
+    THE YOUNG ANGLER.
+
+
+
+
+
+Bessie's Country Stories.
+
+THE SHEEP AND LAMB.
+
+BY THOMAS MILLER.
+
+_ILLUSTRATED._
+
+
+    New York:
+    SHELDON AND COMPANY.
+    1871.
+
+
+
+
+  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868,
+    By SHELDON AND COMPANY,
+  In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
+    Southern District of New York.
+
+
+  Electrotyped at the
+  BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY,
+  No. 19 Spring Lane.
+
+
+
+
+The Sheep and Lamb.
+
+
+
+
+THE PET LAMB.
+
+
+WHERE 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 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 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.
+
+"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 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.
+
+"I'll tell you what I'll do, 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?"
+
+"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 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.
+
+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--where it
+was feeding--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.
+
+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--and not until
+then--that artful little Polly said, "Ought not you to have asked your
+father first, Master Charley, before you gave Johnny one of your lambs?"
+
+"What should I ask father for, when he gave them to me to do what I
+liked with--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 and abetted," inasmuch as she had helped to drive
+the lamb into the little close.
+
+"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."
+
+Johnny promised he wouldn't, so went in-doors, his lamb following him,
+while the one Charley had given him made himself quite at home, and
+began nibbling away at a little patch of white clover which grew in one
+corner of the field.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 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 faithfully,
+and said not a word about the lamb his friend Charley had given him.
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+"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 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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 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--"
+
+"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."
+
+"Please, sir, he doesn't know that butcher Page didn't take away
+Johnny's lamb in the cart," said 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."
+
+"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 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 to take
+Charley away from his father.
+
+"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.
+
+Now Polly, though but a poor cottager's daughter, and having only, 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.
+
+Johnny was seated, fast asleep, on a little rush hassock, with his head
+on his mother's knee, and one arm 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+
+
+THE GREEDY DUCKLING.
+
+
+[Illustration: DUCK AND DUCKLINGS.]
+
+ALTHOUGH 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 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, 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.
+
+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 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."
+
+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,
+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.
+
+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 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."
+
+"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 lies, and how he nestles up to me! He's very fond
+of me."
+
+"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.
+
+"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 like any of the
+other little ducklings to be noticed, do you?"
+
+"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 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,--Fah!"
+
+Now you begin to see what a deal of truth there was in what old Granny
+Grunt said, and what a 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 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.
+
+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 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 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.
+
+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 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?"
+
+Now, selfish and greedy although he was, and disliked by the rest of the
+family, he had a little sister,--which was, that dear duckling you see
+swimming at the front of its mother, as if asking her if it may go out
+of the water for a little time, and have a waddle on the grass, for it
+is a most dutiful duckling,--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,--neither eat, drink, nor swim
+with him, nor even exchange so much as a friendly "quack,"--then it was
+that he began to appreciate the kindness and self-sacrifice 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.
+
+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
+you; and I dare say you only do it to please yourself, and----," 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 hold of it somehow, just as
+Betty does a lump of coal, which she has made a snap at, and seized with
+the tongs.
+
+"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."
+
+"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 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."
+
+"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 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."
+
+"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. 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,--
+
+    'I just do nothing all the day,
+    And soundly sleep the night away,'--
+
+because they just suited me to a T."
+
+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.
+
+There was a hole under the 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--not at all like muddy water. I can taste milk, and I'm
+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."
+
+The cat had been blamed for many 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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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, 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 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.
+
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