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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43808 ***
+
+Transcriber's Note: This book is heavily illustrated. The
+illustrations that do not have captions have been removed in the text
+version; they are retained in the HTML version.
+
+
+
+
+    Marys Little Lamb
+
+    A PICTURE GUESSING STORY
+    FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
+
+    BY
+    EDITH FRANCIS FOSTER
+
+    WITH 500 PICTURES BY THE AUTHOR
+
+    [Illustration]
+
+    SALEM MASS
+    SAMUEL EDSON CASSINO
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+    FRONTISPIECE
+    DEDICATION
+    HOW MARY FOUND HIM               9
+    HOW THEY WASHED HIM             15
+    HOW THEY FED HIM                21
+    HOW HE WENT TO SCHOOL           27
+    HOW HE WOULDN'T JUMP            33
+    HOW LITTLE MARY SPUN            39
+    HOW HE WENT BOATING             45
+    HOW DOLLABELLA TOOK A RIDE      51
+    HOW BOSSY BUNTED HIM            57
+    HOW THEY PLAYED HIDE-AND-SEEK   63
+    HOW HE SAVED MARY!              69
+    HOW HE WON A PRIZE              75
+
+
+
+
+Copyright, 1901, By S. E. Cassino.
+
+Copyright, 1903, By S. E. Cassino.
+
+
+
+
+    TO
+    LITTLE AUNT HANNAH
+    (ON HER
+    NINETY FIRST BIRTHDAY.)
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW MARY FOUND HIM.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+I
+
+When little Mary Moffett's mother asked her to go up to the Clover
+Farm for some fresh [eggs], Mary felt a little sorry, for she was very
+busy making her [doll] a [dress], but she laid down her [thimble] and
+[scissors] and [yarn], tied on her pink [bonnet], and set off up the
+hill, with her little [basket] on her [arm]. As she was coming home
+she heard a queer little patter, patter, behind her. She looked back
+and saw something white! [Mary] felt a wee bit afraid, and began to
+run but her [foot] struck a [stone] and down she tumbled on her
+[nose]! Before she could get up something soft and woolly was rubbing
+gently against her [face], saying "Ba-a-a!" "Oh you darling lamb!"
+cried Mary, hugging it--and the little [lamb] snuggled close, and said
+"Ba-a-a! Take me home with you, little Mary." [Mother] was
+astonished. "Whose lamb is it?" she asked. "Oh Mother, I think it's
+just a wild lamb! Mayn't I keep it?" begged [Mary]. But Mother said
+she must ask Farmer Clover if it was one of his [sheep], first. So
+back they went, and found Farmer Clover mending his [fence] and Mary
+asked him. But there were two big tears in her [eyes]--she did so want
+that dear [lamb]--and the kind old [man] saw them. "Well, yes," he
+said, "that's my lamb--but it's an extra one, that I haven't any room
+for. If I knew anybody who would be willing to take it and treat it
+well--" "Oh, Mr. Clover!" cried [Mary], her eyes dancing, now, and her
+[feet] dancing, too. "_I'd_ be willing! _I'd_ treat it well! May _I_
+have it?" So Mary and the little [lamb] went dancing home together.
+And kind old [Mr. Clover] watched them and laughed till his [axe]
+danced in his [hand], and his [glasses] danced on his [nose].
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW THEY WASHED HIM.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+II
+
+"Mother! Mother!" cried little Mary, running into the [house]. "Mr.
+Clover says he doesn't need this [lamb]--it's extra--and I may have it
+for my very own!" Yes, now it was Mary's little lamb--and how they
+loved each other! They went together everywhere--in the [house] and
+the [barn], and over to Grandfathers, to play with little Aunt Hannah.
+Mary's Aunt Hannah was only three years older than [Mary] herself and
+they played together all the time. The two little [girls] thought the
+[lamb] was beautiful, but it was not very clean. "I don't want a
+dirty, dusty little lamb," said Mary; "I want a nice, clean, white
+lamb." "Then we must wash it." said little [Aunt Hannah]. "Father
+washes all his [sheep] in the [river] every spring." Out by the [barn]
+stood the [faucet] with the big wooden [trough] where the [cows]
+drank. The [trough] was full of water, standing in the [sun]. Mary
+leaned over the edge and dipped her [hand]. "It's nice and warm," she
+said. "Now, dear little [lamb] jump right in!" But the lamb wouldn't
+jump--so Mary and little Aunt Hannah lifted him, and dropped him into
+the [trough]. Then they rubbed him with [soap], and squeezed his [fur]
+with their [hands]. The poor little lamb didn't like it, and kept
+trying to get out--till, as [Mary] tried to hold him her [foot]
+slipped and in she fell, [head] first! Oh, how she screamed! And [Aunt
+Hannah] screamed, too, and the [lamb] cried "Ba-a-a!" as loud as he
+could. Little Aunt Hannah's mother came running from the [house]
+fished them out of the water, and carried them into her [living room]
+one under each [arm]. There she rubbed them dry, wrapped them both in
+[towels] and set them by the [fireplace], to get warm.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW THEY FED HIM.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+III.
+
+Mary's lamb was too young to eat [grass], as old [sheep] do. He wanted
+milk, but he did not know how to drink from a [bucket]. He was just a
+baby sheep, you see. So Mary's [mother] found an old tin [teapot] and
+filled it with warm new milk. Then she tied a [cloth] over the
+[spout], and [Mary] held it while the little [lamb] sucked up every
+drop of the milk. Three times a day they filled the [teapot], and he
+drank it all, while Mary tilted it up for him. One day [Mary] and
+little [Aunt Hannah] went up Clover [Hill] to pick [berries] for their
+mothers to put in [pies]. They took their luncheon in the
+berry-[pail], and each had a tin [cup] to pick into. Mary's [lamb]
+went too, and of course he would want his luncheon, so [Mary] carried
+the old [teapot] in a [basket]. When the [pail] and [basket] were
+full of [berries], they started home. Along the roadside grew white
+[flowers], and they made a [wreath] for the lamb's [neck]. Then Mary
+said "The [sun] shines so, he must be hot. He shall wear my [bonnet]."
+So they tied it snugly over his [ears]. Then they sat under a [tree]
+to finish their luncheon, and afterward Mary gave the [lamb] the rest
+of his milk. Two [women] came past, in a low [carriage], and they
+laughed to see the little lamb drinking from the teapot. Mary did not
+notice that one [woman] held up a little black leather [camera] and
+pointed it at her. But next week a flat, square [package] came from
+the postoffice marked "For the Little Girl and Lamb who live near
+Clover Hill." [Mary] cut the [string] with her [scissors], and
+unfolded the [package]--and what did she find inside it? A beautiful
+photograph of herself, feeding her [lamb] by the roadside!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW HE WENT TO SCHOOL.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+IV.
+
+Mary didn't like to go to school and leave her lamb at home. She knew
+he would not be happy all alone; and how could she study her [books]
+and do sums on her [slate], without her dear little woolly [lamb]
+close beside her? But schooltime came, and she had to start. If she
+had looked back, she would have seen the [lamb] trotting along behind,
+all so pretty, with a blue [bow] on his [neck]. He loved to follow
+little Mary, and he didn't know [lambs] mustn't go to school. Before
+he caught up with her, the [bell] rang, the [children] all ran in, and
+the [door] was shut; but he stood on the door-[step] and heard them
+singing. Then the arithmetic class began, and the [teacher] said:
+"Mary, if you had three [apples], and gave one [apple] to Hannah, how
+many would you have left?" Mary was not thinking of [apples].
+"Four," she said, "but please teacher, did you know I had a [lamb]?"
+and the lamb heard her voice and called "Baa!" outside the [door], as
+loud as he could. "Why, there he is!" cried [Mary]. "He must go home,"
+said the teacher; and she opened the [door] to send him away. But the
+little [lamb] came right in, and ran to [Mary], so glad to see her
+again! "Oh, please let him stay!" said she: "I am sure he will be
+good!" But all the other [children] laughed--it was so funny to see a
+lamb in school--and the [teacher] had to turn him out. But the [lamb]
+would not go home. He wanted to stay near Mary; So he waited on the
+[step] and every time he heard her voice he cried "Ba-a-a!" At last
+the [teacher] said [Mary] must take him home; so she put away her
+[books], and the little [lamb] jumped and danced, he was so happy, as
+they ran home together.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW HE WOULDN'T JUMP.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+V
+
+All the week the little lamb had to stay at home while Mary went to
+[school]; but on Saturday they had such good times! First, [Mary] had
+her tasks to do. She wiped all the [cups] and [plates] and [spoons],
+dusted the [chairs] and made her own [bed]. Then she went out to play.
+The nicest place to "play house" was the [roof] of a [hut] by the
+[barn]. Mary and little Aunt Hannah climbed up by the [fence], with
+their [dolls] and [tea set] but the [lamb] couldn't climb. They tried
+to carry him, but he was too heavy--and he kicked, too. So they took
+him up on the [straw] in the [barn] and dropped him out of a [window]
+onto the [roof]. Then they all had a good time playing "party", with
+some caraway [biscuits] and a little [jug] of milk. But at noon,
+when Mary's Mother blew the dinner-[whistle], the lamb couldn't get
+down! They couldn't lift him up to the [window], and he was afraid to
+jump to the ground. Little Aunt Hannah stood on the [wheelbarrow], but
+could not reach him. Then they brought out armfuls of [straw] and made
+a big soft [haystack] and [Mary] stood on the [roof] and tried to push
+him off into the [straw] but he wouldn't budge. "Come to dinner,
+children," called Mary's [Mother]. "It is getting cold." "Oh dear!"
+said little Mary, almost crying. "He'll have to stay up here and
+starve! But he's had three [caraway biscuits], anyway." At last
+[Hannah's] big brother came out to find them. He laughed when he saw
+the [lamb] and the [haystack] but he went for a [ladder], and very
+quickly brought the little [lamb] safely down to the ground. Then they
+all went in and had their dinner together.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW LITTLE MARY SPUN.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+VI
+
+"When my lamb is big enough" said Mary to little Aunt Hannah, "my
+father will shear him with the [clippers], like the old [sheep] and
+Mother will teach me to spin, and knit the wool; and so my little lamb
+will give me my [gloves] and [socks]." "Let's shear him now." said
+[aunt Hannah]. "I can teach you to knit." "Well." said Mary. "He is
+very little--but we will only take a little of his [wool]." So she got
+the [scissors], and they cut some wool from his [back]. But they
+found it must first be spun into [yarn]--and they didn't know how: so
+they went to ask Mary's [mother]. She laughed at the poor little
+[lamb] with the big bare spots in his pretty white [fleece]. "If you
+are in such a hurry for [gloves] and [socks]," she said, "we will
+begin them at once. First, you must learn to spin." So she brought
+out the big [spinning wheel] and some tiny soft [threads] of wool and
+showed her how to spin the rolls into [yarn]. Mary liked to walk
+backward and forward, and twirl the great [spinning wheel] with a
+[clothes-pin]; but her yarn was all uneven, and kept snarling and
+breaking. Soon she grew tired--and cross, too, and then the [yarn]
+snarled worse than ever. As last [Mary] gave the [spinning wheel] a
+great whirl, as hard as she could, and ran off to the [barn]. There
+she hid in the [straw] and cried, until the little [lamb] found her
+and rubbed his [head] against her [hair]. Then she stopped crying to
+laugh, his ragged [fleece] looked so funny! Pretty soon she went back
+to the [house] and said she was sorry for being cross. Then [Mother]
+gave her a nice [ball] of yarn and some [knitting needles] and [Aunt
+Hannah] taught her to knit a [sock].
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW HE WENT BOATING.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+VII
+
+When the time really came to wash and shear the [sheep], Mary's
+[father] said the lamb wasn't big enough to spare any more [wool]--but
+he did get washed in the [river]. Mary and little Aunt Hannah went
+down in the meadow to gather cowslips--not for the pretty [flowers]
+but to boil in a [pot] for dinner. They took off their [shoes] and
+[socks] and splashed about in the wet [grass], filling their [bucket]
+with [cowslips]. They picked some tall blue [flowers] too, and pulled
+sweet-flag to eat. To get the sweet [flag], they had to cross a little
+[bridge] over the brook. The [lamb] followed them, but he stepped on a
+loose [board], and it tipped him off into the water! It wasn't deep
+enough to be over his [head], but he waded the wrong way and scrambled
+out on a little [island] in the middle of the [brook]. They
+couldn't coax him to wade ashore;--he didn't like water, and would
+only shake his [head] and say "Ba-a-a! No-o-o!" "We must build a
+[bridge] for him" said [Mary]. "No," said [Aunt Hannah] "we will get
+the boat. The [boys] keep it at the mill." They followed the brook up
+to the [mill] and untied the [boat]. There were no [oars], but they
+found a long [pole] and pushed it along to the [island]. The little
+[lamb] was very glad to jump in with them. But they could not push the
+[boat] ashore, for the water ran too fast. So they floated along,
+dipping their [fingers] in the water, and watching the little [fish]
+swimming below, till they ran into a [fence] across the brook. Then
+they climbed ashore and went back for their [bucket] and [shoes and
+socks]. "Oh, you funny lamb!" said Mary, "What good times you do make
+us have!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW DOLLABELLA TOOK A RIDE.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+VIII
+
+Dollabella, Mary's biggest doll, had had the measles, but she was
+getting better. "When people get better" said [Mary], "they always go
+to ride." So she tried to give her [doll] a ride on the [lamb]'s back,
+but he danced up and down and she fell off. Then Mary took a [string]
+and tied her on, so when the [lamb] danced again he couldn't shake
+[Dollabella] off. He didn't like that, so he thought he would run away
+from her, and off he went! The [gate] was shut, but he squeezed
+through a gap in the [fence], and tore Dollabella's [dress] on a
+[nail]. Mary squeezed through the gap, too, and her [skirt] caught on
+the [nail], and tore a great big three-cornered [hole]. The [lamb] ran
+across a field and jumped over a [stone wall] into the [bushes] and
+Mary ran after him, laughing. Dollabella's [hat] fell off her
+[head], and so did Mary's [bonnet]. The [branches] of the [trees]
+caught her [hair] and tangled them and almost pulled the [doll] from
+the lamb's back. At last they came out into a [wheat]field and saw
+Farmer Clover at work with his [hoe]. "Hello!" said he. "Who's running
+away--you or your lamb?" "Oh, we aren't running away," said [Mary],
+all out of breath. "We are just giving my [doll] a ride. She is sick!"
+"Well, that's a pretty fast ride for anybody that's sick!" said
+[Farmer Clover]. "Now I am going to the [barn], to get a [jug] of
+molasses. Don't you want to ride home in my [buggy]?" Mary and the
+[lamb] were tired, and glad to have a ride--and I think the poor sick
+[doll] must have been just as glad. But when they got home [Mary] had
+to take a [sewing needle] and [thimble] out of her [basket] and mend
+her [dress] and Dollabella's too.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW BOSSY BUNTED HIM.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+IX
+
+As the lamb grew big and strong he got very frisky, too. He found out
+that when he ran at things with his hard little [head] down and bunted
+them, the things would fall down. He thought that was funny, so he
+bunted everything. In the [house] he bunted over [chairs] and the
+[shovel] and [tongs], and nobody dared set a [bucket] or [tub] on the
+floor. Outdoors, he ran at the [hens] and [chicks], to see them
+flutter and scream. Once he bunted little Aunt Hannah's [cat]--but she
+didn't fall down; she stood up and cuffed him with her [paw], and
+scratched him! But [Mary] fell down when he bunted her, and so did
+[Hannah], although they were bigger than the [cat]. One night he ran
+at Mary's father, bringing in the [pail], and spilled all the milk
+over his [boots]. Then Mary's [father] said if the [lamb] didn't
+stop bunting he must be tied up. So [Mary] tried to teach him better,
+but he didn't understand it was naughty, and kept right on bunting. At
+last one day, he bunted the [cow] which was tied to the [fence] by a
+long [rope]. Now Bossy liked to bunt, too; so when the [lamb] ran at
+her she put her [head] down and ran at him! And she was the biggest,
+so it was the little [lamb] himself that fell down that time! First he
+flew right over the [fence] and fell on his [head],--then he rolled
+over and over into the duck-[pond]. All the [ducks] began to flap
+their [wings] and quack, and the big gray [goose] hissed at him and
+chased him. The poor naughty little [lamb] was so frightened that he
+ran to [Mary], all wet and muddy, and hid his [head] in her [dress].
+After that, he didn't bunt things any more!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW THEY PLAYED HIDE AND SEEK.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+X
+
+One day Mary and her lamb were playing in the [barn]. He would lie
+still as a [mouse] while she buried him in the [hay], but when she
+clapped her [hands] he jumped up and ran to her like a [dog]. Then
+[Mary] began to pull out [hay] from the mow, and made a deep hole
+where they could both creep in out of sight. After supper they played
+hide-and-seek with [Hannah]. So many nice hiding-places--under the
+[flower]-bushes, behind the rain-[barrel], and around the [wood] by
+the [woodshed]. At last [Mary] remembered her hole in the [hay] and
+crept in, with the [lamb] which followed her everywhere. Then they
+waited, keeping very still, till by and by [Mary] grew sleepy--for it
+was almost [bed]-time. She laid her [head] on the [lamb]'s soft neck,
+as they cuddled down together in their [nest], and before they knew
+it they were fast asleep! [Hannah] hunted and hunted, till she thought
+[Mary] must have gone in the [house], to play a trick on her; so she
+went into her own [house] a little vexed. [Bed]-time came and her
+[Mother] came to the [door] to call Mary in. "I guess she's gone home
+with Hannah," said [father], as he came from the [barn] with his
+[lamp]. The [girls] often slept together, and Mary's mother didn't
+hear the "I guess," so she only said "It is naughty to go without
+telling me. She mustn't again." So nobody knew where [Mary] was, all
+night! But next morning she didn't come home--she was not at
+[Hannah]'s--and how frightened everybody was! They hunted everywhere,
+and at last started to drive to the neighbor's [houses]. The noise of
+the [carriage] and of the [horse] trampling on the [street] waked
+Mary--and how astonished everybody was, when she and the [lamb] came
+creeping out of the [hay]!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW HE SAVED MARY!]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+XI
+
+Once little Mary and her lamb really did get lost--and something
+dreadful almost happened! They had been picking [berries] in the
+[bushes] up Clover [hill], and couldn't find the way out. The [sun]
+was setting, and [Mary] thought of [snakes] and [bears]! She was tired
+and hungry, too. She was eating [blueberries] from her [pail], and
+crying, and the [lamb], who would not eat [berries] and wanted his
+milk in the old [coffeepot] was crying, too--"Ba-a-a!"--when a big,
+tall [boy] with a [rifle] in his [hand] broke through the bushes
+behind them. He sat down on a [stump] and stared at them, looking so
+white and scared that [Mary] felt sorry for him. "Did a [bear] chase
+you?" she asked. "Oh no," said he, "It's only I'm so glad you are
+alive!" He didn't dare tell her he had mistaken her little brown
+[head] bobbing among the [leaves], for a [bird], and raised his
+[gun] to shoot it when he saw a little white [lamb] bobbing beside it
+and stopped to look closer! So her little [lamb] had saved Mary's
+life--but she never knew it. "Now how came you up here?" the boy
+asked. "Are you lost?" "Oh no," said [Mary], winking away the [tears],
+and smiling; "We aren't exactly lost--only we can't just find our
+[home]. And we want our supper, too." "You shall have it!" said the
+[boy]. "You are little Mary--I know your [house]--and I'm going to
+carry you there, quicker than a [horse] can trot!" So he took [Mary]
+in one [arm] and the [lamb] in the other, and the [gun] he left hidden
+in the [forest] under a [tree]. Then he quickly found the [road] (it
+was close by, after all,) and in ten minutes they were safe home
+again; and Mary's [mother] thanked the big [boy] and gave them all
+some supper.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HOW HE WON THE PRIZE.]
+
+
+[Illustration: MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.]
+
+
+XII
+
+Now Mary and the big [boy] with the [gun] became great friends. He
+used to bring her [candy] in his [satchel]; once he took her out in
+his [boat] to gather [flowers]; and he promised to take her to the
+County Fair. Early on that day he came for her with his [horse] and
+[carriage]. Mary was all ready, in her new [hat], with [bows] on her
+[shoes]. "Where is the [lamb]?" he asked. "[Father] says he mustn't
+go," said Mary sadly, "so I shut him up in the [barn]". "Oh but he
+must go!" cried the [boy]. "He's entered--they expect him." [Mary]
+didn't understand that, but she was very glad to take her dear [lamb]
+with her. They walked about the Fair grounds and saw the [horses] and
+[cows] and [sheep] and [pigs] in the [pens]; and visited the [tent]
+where the [rabbits] and [chickens] were, in their [cages]. And
+everywhere that [Mary] went the [lamb] kept close beside her; and
+all the [people] looked at them and smiled. At last the [boy] said,
+"Now we are going into the [exhibit hall] so we will leave our [lamb]
+in this nice little [pen] beside all the other [lambs] to wait for
+us." They looked at the [fruits] and [flowers] and the [quilts] and
+[preserves] in the [exhibit hall]. Then they found Marys [father] and
+[mother] and had dinner together; and afterward they saw the [horse]
+race, and the [hot-air balloon] go up, and heard the [marching band]
+play. It was a long time before they went for the [lamb]. Some
+[people] were looking at him, and just as Mary ran up they fastened a
+blue [ribbon] on his [head]. "Oh, thank you! How pretty!" she said.
+"Hurrah!" cried the [boy]. "Our [lamb] has won first prize! That means
+he's the best [lamb] in town!" "Of course!" said little [Mary]. "He's
+the best [lamb] in the whole [world]!"
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Mary's Little Lamb, by Edith Francis Foster
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43808 ***