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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Sheep and Lamb + +Author: Thomas Miller + +Release Date: February 27, 2012 [EBook #38995] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHEEP AND LAMB *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by the University of Florida Digital Collections.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<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—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.<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—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?"</p> + +<p>"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<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—"</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,—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,—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,—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<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——," 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,—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +'I just do nothing all the day,<br /> +And soundly sleep the night away,'—<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—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> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> +<div class='adtitle2'>JUVENILE BOOKS.<br /> + +<span class='small'>PUBLISHED BY</span><br /> + +SHELDON & COMPANY,<br /> + +NEW YORK.</div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Booklist"> +<tr><td align='left'><br /><div class='hang1'>ROLLO'S TOUR IN EUROPE. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Sheep and Lamb + +Author: Thomas Miller + +Release Date: February 27, 2012 [EBook #38995] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SHEEP AND LAMB *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by the University of Florida Digital Collections.) + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: SHEEP AND LAMBS.] + + + + +[Illustration: Violet Stories] + + + + +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." 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