then he might have butted them with his head.
But, as it was, Russ reached the fence first. He turned to wait for
Laddie, who was a little behind him.
"And if that old ram had hurt you I'd 'a' thrown stones at him," said Russ
afterward. But Laddie, with an extra burst of speed, managed to get to the
fence, and Russ helped him through. The ram was so close that his head
struck the rails with a bang.
"It's a good thing it wasn't us he hit," said Russ, as they found
themselves safe on the other side.
"That's right," agreed Laddie. "He's terrible mad 'cause we didn't save
him any sugar. I was going to, but it all spilled."
They stood on the safe side of the fence looking at the ram, which shook
its head, stamped its feet, and, now and then, uttered a loud
"Baaa-a-a-a-a!"
I don't really believe the ram was angry at Russ and Laddie for not giving
him sugar. I think the leader of the flock thought perhaps the boys might
be troubling the sheep, and wanted to drive them from the field. That's
just what he did, anyhow--drive them from the field.
For a little while the boys stood watching the sheep. Those that had come
to eat the sugar seemed to have licked up all there was on the grass, and
they came with the others, to stand behind the ram, near the fence. They
all looked at the boys.
"I guess they like us," said Laddie.
"All but the ram," said Russ. "And I don't like him."
"Neither do I," agreed his brother.
"Well, come on," said Russ, after a bit. "We can't have any fun here.
Let's go and sail the boat I made. I was looking for you when Jane said
she gave you the sugar. I couldn't think what you were going to do."
"I thought about the sugar for the sheep when I saw the man going with the
salt," explained Laddie. "But I guess I won't do it any more--not while
the old ram is in the field. Come on, we'll go and sail your boat."
The boys went back to the house and got the new sailboat Russ had made.
Going down to the sandy shore of the lake with it, they found Rose a
Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.