Carry this little lamb in thy bosom an' giv her de joy of thy love.

PROVIDENCE tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.

Hers died and we took its fleece and wrapped it around a twin lamb that we took from another ewe, and gave to her.

"She's an innocent little lamb," Mrs. Corbett cried, "and she's lonely and homesick, and you've taken advantage of it.

I'll take him and keep him, that's what I'll do: for he's a stray lamb, and belongs to him that finds him, like any other lamb I finds.

Out on the hillside all alone, gazing afar with sleepless eyes, The little gray lamb prayed soft and low, its weary face to the starry skies: "O moon of the heavens so fair, so bright, Give meoh, give mea fleece of white!"

My pretty lamb, forbear to weep; Be still, my dear; sweet baby, sleep.

We all think a lot of Fred and Mrs. Fred," she went on, bringing in two big dishes of potatoes; "and if you could see that poor, precious lamb trying to cook pork and beans with a little wisp of an apron on, all lace and ribbons, and big diamonds on her fingers, you'd be sorry for her, and you'd say, 'What kind of an old tyrant is the old man down beyant, and why don't he take her and Fred back?'

He run right back to her like a little lost lamb the second you was gone.

" "Give me a fat lamb," answered the jackal.

Howbeit, our snarling wolves do live like tender lambs these days, the which doth but go to prove how blessed a thing is a fista fist, mark you, strong to strike, big to buffet, and swift to smite: a capable fist, Roger, to strike, buffet and smite a man to the good of his soul.

Softness is a joy to children, as is shown in the woolly lambs, etc., provided for babies.

But, if thou persistest; if thou wilt avenge thyself on this sweet lamb which thou hast singled out from a flock thou hatest, for the faults of the dogs who kept it: if thou art not to be moved by beauty, by learning, by prudence, by innocence, all shining out in one charming object; but she must fall, fall by the man whom she has chosen for her protector; I would not for a thousand worlds have thy crime to answer for.

There was also a big boy on a pony talking to a great girl, who was lying on the grass; but the prettiest group of girls were standing or kneeling round a pet lamb which they were decking with wreaths of flowers.

But gentler now the small waves glide, Like playful lambs o'er a mountain's side.

And the wolf obedient set forth with him, in fashion as a gentle lamb; whereat the townsfolk made mighty marvel, beholding.

'CASE X.She heard her son exclaim in Gaelic, "This is a fatal lamb for me."

The helpless lamb is stricken where it stands, crouching in a deep gorge; the little maid sits weeping by.

"The larger here, and there the lesser lambs, The new-fall'n young herd bleating for their dams.

'The outcome of your speech, then, my dear sir, as I apprehend it, is a request to me to send back the fugitive lamb into the jaws of the well-meaning, but still lupine wolf?'

Patsey, now very repentant, brought his catapult, Bugsey his alleys, his loveliest "pure," and the recumbent lamb set in a ball of clear glass; Tommy surrendered his pair of knobbies.

Jeannette had a naughty lamb, That looked like dirty snow; And wherever Jeannette went That lamb would never go.

God help the outcast lamb!

Once or twice a smile crossed her face, and once she laughed as she thought of the comical picture which the young man had made as he struggled to dry land with the wet lamb in his arms; and the smile and her laugh made her face seem strangely girlish, because it was usually so calm, so gravely self-reliant.

And Jeannette tore her dress to rags, And scratched her hands and face; But of her dirty little lamb She couldn't find a trace.