Mary's Lamb Up-to-date.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 2 October 1914, Page 2

Mary's Lamb Up-to-date.

Miss Mary was the possessor of a diminutive and immature specimen of the Ovis Aries, a wool-bearing and ruminant quadruped, whose flesh is highly esteemed by persons to whose gustatory organs its flavour is agreeable.

The shaggy and -agglomerated filaments constituting in their collective capacity its natural outer covering, integument, or a garment presented to the vision a surface absolutely etiolated and albified, and rivalling in immaculateness the lustrous mantle of crystallized vapour that commonly characterises the winter landscape.

And (o whatsoever locality, contiguous or remote, whither Mary's vagrant fancy, the call of duty, or perchance the parental mandate impelled her, when not otherwise engage:!, to betake herself, this juvenescent representative of the genus Ovis Aries, with a fidelity remarkable in one so immature and inexperienced, could be counted upon with absolute and entire certainty to accompany her.