Show LIKE THE WOLF AND LAMB Inoffensive Creatures Most Unjustly Charged With Sudden Attack of Bloodthirstiness I A man who was vas caught In the act of at skinning a a. neighbors neighbor's bors bor's sheep covered covered cov coy ered ox-ed his embarrassment by declaring that no sheep could bite him and live The logic of ot this i lg Is equaled by that of at the Yankee soldier who once had a narrow escape from an enraged gander gan gan- der The nen of a certain Maine regiment regi regi- me ment t which i was In the enemy's country country country coun coun- try In 1862 co considered th the order no foraging an additional and uncalled- uncalled for tor hardship One afternoon about dusk a soldier was seen soon beating a rapid retreat from the rear of a farmhouse farmhouse farmhouse farm farm- house near by closely pursued by a g gander with wings outspread whose feet se seemed scarcely to touch the gr ground und and from beak Issued a succession of at Angry screams The fugitive was not not- reassured by the cries of at the he ganders gander owner Hold on on man an hold on He lIe wont won't hurt you Call off orf your our g gander der Call him off shouted sho the soldier r. r Neither man nor for gander stopped until inside the 1 Jen the soldiers soldier's friends r relieved him of his fierce pursuer pursuer pursuer pur pur- with the aid of the butt of at a musket Did that gander think he lie could chase me like that and live livel the soldier exclaimed almed as he surveyed ed the o outstretched bird but he sLid stid nothing of the baited hook with cod cod- line attached which might have thrown light on the unfortunate gand ganders gander's ganders gander's gan gan- d ders der's rs r's s strange range actions actions |