252 Move about May.

 

cross, because he could not do just
as May did.

So when his sister saw that, she
coiled the rope all together and took
it home; and then they sat down
together to watch the lambs; for
May was always sorry to see her
little charge growing pettish and
cross. She knew a way of keeping
down her own naughty tempers,
which the little boy had not yet
found out; and that day she was
full of some thoughts that she
wanted to put into Johnny’s head, if
she could only find out how to do it.

Now, it happened that in that
field there were several big sheep
and some little lambs; so they sat