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The child put his head in his mother’s lap, and Alida began, scarce knowing what she did: "’The gray wolves are coming fast over the hill, Run fast, little lamb, do not baa, do not bleat, For the gray wolves are hungry, they come here to kill, And the lambs shall be scattered—’ "No, no, Jimmy, muvvy cannot sing. Oh, can’t you feel, child? Judith, Judith, why were you ever born?"
"You know it isn't over in our set, and never will be," he returned. "You girls have a lot of freedom, I admit. But there are limits." "Baa!" was Helen's utterly impudent remark. They ran down to the shore and got out one of the canoes. Helen was familiar with the use of the paddle and served her brother as a good second.
There was a half-minute cessation of the baa and blat, and before it was resumed the tender had prodded the two herders into wakefulness. "Better sleep with one eye open," he advised. "There's a wolf in the hills. Just crossing through, mebbe but anyhow you better stay awake to hold the sheep while I fire a shot to scare him off if he comes too close.
"After a pause in the dark. "Tell me, was he ... was Mubby.. back there, in our former life?" "O yes, he was there." "And Darrie, too?" "Yes, Darrie, too!" "If my name was Naa and your name was Kaa, what were their names?" "Mubby was named Baa and Darrie was Blaa!" This convulsed Hildreth. "You great, big, sweet fool of a poet, I do love you, I really do!"
When he called "Nanny" it answered him instantly with a plaintive "Baa!" and then, after a vain interchange of lamentations, he had to come away, and console himself as he could with the pets that were left him. Among these were a family of white rabbits, which the boys kept in a little hutch at the bottom of the yard.
It will be all right, I assure you. The shepherd was walking slowly, driving the bull before him, when he suddenly heard a loud baa amongst the bushes far away on one side of the path, and a feeble bleat answering it from the other side. 'Why, it must be the sheep and the kid that I lost, said he.
She had only toddled off after a man with a basket of images, calling out, "baa, baa," "moo, moo," "bow-wow." The end of it was, that the image man had given her a toy lamb, for which she had said, "How do," instead of thank you; and Florence Eastman had led her home. Susy was heartily ashamed of her heedlessness.
The gravel-pit is not really dangerous if you don't try to climb down the edges, but go the slow safe way round by the road, as if you were a cart. Each of the children carried its own spade, and took it in turns to carry the Lamb. He was the baby, and they called him that because 'Baa' was the first thing he ever said.
Losing patience, he resumed many times running at the top of his voice, till the "Baa, baa, baa!" came out with so much power that the goat began to be mistakable for a bull. Unexpectedly, a few steps in front, some gigantic black thing appeared. He was hushed. This thing lowered its head, sniffed the ground, bounded up, rolled over, and darted off at the gallop, but returned and stopped short.
Away ran the dog with the Lamb on Wheels in his mouth down the street, over a low fence, and soon he was in the vacant lots where the weeds grew high. And then, as there were no human eyes in the vacant lots to see her, the Lamb thought it time to do something. She began to wiggle her legs, though she could not get them loose from the platform with wheels on, and she cried out: "Baa! Baa! Baa!"
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