Show ABOUT SHEEP had been quiet nil day peo THEY pie bad come to watch them and to look at them people bad made remarks about them but they had not said a word they had made bardl any sounds at all they had felt at throes as though they would like to make faces at some of the people who said rude things but they dlan t they just let the people say what they wanted to eay and paid little attention to them after the people bad gone they talked a little of how absurd some 1 I come from india said another mountain sheep of them had been how they had and looked and how foolish and unattractive some of the people in the world are I 1 come from pait la I 1 come from persia yes indeed I 1 come from persia said the mountain sheep another one of the wild sheep family well I 1 come from india yes in deed I 1 do said another mountain sheep we both come from different places said the first mountain sheep whose name was ray but we both belong to the same family said the second moun tain sheep whose name was bobby shows how smart we are said ray we hive different homes through out the countries he continued ah were fine smart sheep we are e are we are agreed bobby ell I 1 was going to say corn fenced ray that though I 1 come from persia from the south of persia which Is the opposite of the north I 1 believe most mountain sheep come from india what Is south and what Is north asked bobby south Is down and north Is up said hay I 1 like the earth and sky I 1 suppose said cobby ot at all said ray when folks talk of the southern or part of a country they are not speaking of the sky at all poor sky said dobby its left out of it entirely but I 1 suppose its too big to feel hurt about it it has enough said bay it Is so high up no one can scold it it can rain or snow or sleet or the sun may shine and we cant call up to the sky and say please dont do that up there the sky hear us in the first place and besides people have learned that they talk to a lofty object like the sky in any too familiar a manner they may say they with it rain or they wish it had turned out to be a fair day but they dont directly ask anything of the sky true uie sky certainly has its own way agreed bobby the southern part of a country said hay Is the lower part of the country south of the upper or northern part of the country when we say up north we mean up at one end of the land and when we say down south we mean down toward the other end make a fine school teacher said bobby grinning no matter said ray it I 1 am not a professor for I 1 know you mean I 1 make a mighty poor one they never have made an mountain a professor that I 1 have ever heard of and I 1 dont suppose they will begin now but ah we have something for which to be thankful we have lovely shaggy hilr we are small and dainty and best of all tte have wonderful circling horns I 1 and that was quite true for the mountain sheep are famous for their beautiful big horns and they are quite pleased that they have theatt oh yes indeed they are quite quite pleased about their horns copyright |