THE EWE AND HER OLD HOME. 119

A lamb, frisking about near its mother, happened to
spring into a thick hedge, in which its coat was so firmly
held that it could not escape. The ewe, after vainly trying
to rescue her young one, ran off with loud bleatings toward
a neighbouring field where there was a ram, and told him
of the disaster. He at once returned with her, and by
means of his horns quickly pushed the young creature out
of the thorny trap in which it had been caught.

 

THE EWE AND HER OLD HOME.

A EWE, bred in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, was driven
into Perthshire, a distance of upwards of one hundred miles.
She remained some time at the place, and there became the
mother of a lamb. She took a dislike to her new home, and
thoughts of her early days stealing upon her, she made up
her mind to return to the scenes of her youth.

Calling her lamb, she one night set off southward. Often
she was forced to hurry on her young one with eager
bleatings. She took the highroad, along which she had been
driven. Reaching Stirling early in the morning, she found
that a fair was taking place, and that the town was full of
people. Unwilling to venture among them for fear of being
caught, or of losing her lamb, she waited calmly outside till
the evening, lying close by the roadside. Many people saw
her, but believing that her owner was near, they did not
trouble her. During the early hours of the morning she got
safely through, observed by several people, and evidently