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"You can't give me what I want most. There are three things, and I've got to wait for them all." "Gracious me, what are they?" cried the old lady, good-naturedly, for she felt better already. "A mustache, a beaver, and a sweetheart," answered Toady, with his eyes fixed wistfully on Baa-baa, who possessed all these blessings, and was particularly enjoying the latter at that moment.
"Because they cut off so much of my wool. You know how it is with me, for I am in the Mother Goose book. Listen! "'Baa-baa, black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir; yes, sir; three bags full. One for the master, one for the man, And one for the little boy who lives in the lane. "That's the way I answered when they asked me if I had any wool," said Baa-baa.
Van settled it last week, and Polly's been so happy ever since. Mother likes it, and I like it, for I'm fond of Van, though I do call him Baa-baa, because he looks like a sheep. We all like it, and we 'd all say so, if we were not afraid of you. Mother and Polly, I mean; of course we men don't mind, but we don't want a fuss. You won't make one, will you, now?"
Then there were shiny peafowls screeching clarion calls from the trees overhead, and flocks of singing blackbirds, and pigeons hovering over and alighting upon the house. Last to approach were a woolly sheep that added his baa-baa to the din, and a bald-faced burro that walked in his sleep. These two became the centre of clamor.
"But now it is done, and it will be a long while before my wool grows out again. And as long as it is cold weather I will shiver, I suppose," said Baa-baa, the black sheep. "No, you shall not shiver!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "How can you stop me?" asked the black sheep. "By wrapping my old fur coat around you," said the rabbit gentleman. "I have two fur overcoats, a new one and an old one.
He had a blond curly head, a long face, pale, mild eyes, a plaintive voice, and a general expression of innocent timidity strongly suggestive of animated mutton. But Baa-baa was a "trump," as Toady emphatically declared, and though every one laughed at him, every one liked him, and that is more than can be said of many saints and sages.
They rode out of the woods into an open valley that might have been picturesque if it had not been despoiled by the work of man. A log fence ran along the edge of open ground and a mud dam held back a pool of stagnant water, slimy and green. As Carley rode on the baa-baa of sheep became so loud that she could scarcely hear Glenn talking.
'Moose noses, buffalo tongues, bear steaks, and roasted marrow-bones would be the thing, but I don't mind a change; so bring on your baa-baa and green meat, answered Dan from the box, where he sat in state like a chief among his tribe, with the great hound at his feet.
She heard the chug of a gasoline engine and the baa-baa of sheep. Glenn waited for her to catch up with him, and he said: "Carley, this is one of Hutter's sheep camps. It's not a a very pleasant place. You won't care to see the sheep-dip. So I'm suggesting you wait here " "Nothing doing, Glenn," she interrupted. "I'm going to see what there is to see."
"You're the cow ropingest girl in the Rockies! Say, Jude, ain't you afraid that baa-baa you're riding will buck with you? Swift! What a hell of a name for that thing!" "She can beat you roping 'em at that, Jimmy!" cried Douglas. "Better ride light, Jimmy," warned John. "She thinks more of that mare than she does of me." "All right, John," laughed Jimmy. "Take this heifer, fellows!
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