Minnie's Pet Lamb

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Leslie Madeline. Minnie's Pet Lamb

CHAPTER I. NANNIE AND THE PONY

CHAPTER II. THE LITTLE LAMBS

CHAPTER III. THE SHEEP AND THE SCAVENGER

CHAPTER IV. ATTACHMENT TO HOME

CHAPTER V. AFFECTION FOR ITS YOUNG

CHAPTER VI. THE SHEEP-FARM

CHAPTER VII. THE SHEPHERD’S DOG

CHAPTER VIII. HARRY AND HATTY

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Anne was standing on some high steps, putting up clean curtains in her mistress’s room; and Minnie stood watching her, and wondering how soon she would be done, so she could tell about the lambs. At last she said, —

“Anne, if I stand up in a chair, I could hold the nails and give them to you.”

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“They are poor, tender little things, any way. Well, I mind the time when there was a great storm, and grandfather had to be up all night, housing the poor craturs; for the lambs were coming fast. A little past midnight, mother called me, and there we sat till morning, before a blazing fire, warming up one and another, as he brought them in. I sat down on a cricket, and took two or three in my lap at once, and hugged them up to my bosom. When they began to twitch, and we found they must die, we put them on the great hearth rug, and took more. Sometimes they’d just lie down and go to sleep, and when we had time to look at them, they’d be stiff and cold; and then again they would cry out like a baby. It used to make my heart ache to hear them.”

Anne had now finished her work, and came down from the steps.

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