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Tom Ilderton, and other stories, by the author of 'Mary Mathieson'.
Tom Ilderton and other stories by the author of 'Mary Mathieson' Author:Scott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: KITTY AND HER LAMB. BE SOT HIGH-MINDED, BUT FEAR. ) T was a cold day in the end of April. The sun shone sometimes with a grey, misty, cold light across the... more » hills, which its beams, instead of enlivening and warming, seemed only to make more drear and dismal-looking. Showers of sleet fell frequently, and the ground was wet and slushy. In the midst of all this cold and wet, two little lambs were brought into the world, which, from their constant and pitiful cries, they evidently thought very comfortless and inhospitable. Their long thin legs trembled so much with the cold that they could not stand; and though their mother did what she could to get them a dry place to lie down, under theshelter of an old dry-stone dyke, the ground was so soaked with wet everywhere, that she could not find any place that was fit for two such little tender creatures to make their bed. One of them soon began to show signs of sinking under its troubles, and the poor mother looked very sorry, but could do nothing to help it. Presently, however, she heard a step which she knew well, and, looking up with her meek, patient eye, saw the shepherd coming towards her. ' How is this ?' he said, looking at the lambs: ' one of them seems in a fair way to get on, in spite of this terrible weather; but here is a little chap that seems likely to die, if I don't take care:' so saying, he lifted the lamb, and carried it away on his arm, the mother looking piteously after him, and hoping he would not hurt her lamb. She spoke as well as she could, and said,' B-a-a, B-a-a,' and the poor little lamb gave one feeble little' M-a-a' in reply, and then knew nothing more that happened to it, till it openedits eyes in a comfortable, warm kitchen, and saw a little girl hanging tenderly over it. ' M-a-a,' said the little...« less