THE LAMB JOHN FOUND

Evening Star, Issue 23692, 27 September 1940, Page 3

THE LAMB JOHN FOUND

John was coming home from school one day when he saw a lamb wandering along all alone. It was strange to meet a lost lamb in the crowded streets of London. ‘ Oh, you poor thing!” cried John. “ I think I had bettor take you homo with me; perhaps my daddy will be able to find out to whom you belong.” John had a piece of string in his pocket, and this he put round the lamb’s nock—though the poor, frightened animal would have followed him willingly enough if he had just taken hold of his wool. John had not gone very far before he found cjuito a little crowd following him. Some of the boys called out and frightened the little creature, and made John angry. Poor John didn’t know what to do. Somehow ho managed to pick the lamb up in his arms. It was very heavy, and it struggled so hard to be free that soon the little boy was obliged to put it down. When they crossed the tramlines acar dashed by. This must have frightened the lamb so much that it started to cry “ Ba-a, ba-a!” and refused to move. John thought the sooner he got home the better. But his troubles were not over yet. A large St. Bernard dog came bounding along the street. It was going so fast that it knocked against the poor little animal and sent it into the road, where a car had to pull up sharply to avoid running it down. A bus just behind the car stopped still on the tramlines. The bus stopped the tram, and the tram stopped the one behind it, and that, of course, held up the traffic all along. John was getting desperate when up came a man with a stick in his hand, dressed as a farmer.

“ Why. here is my missing lamb!” lie cried. “Deary me, 1 wondered where it had got to. Well, .1 am pleased to get it hack.” . fiat the farmer was not half so pi on sod as .John was to hand his charge over to someone who was better able to take care of it.