Show A k connecticut E STORY the following is related as c falca having actually happened some years since in the state of connecticut A man in rather indifferent circumstances surrounded by a lai large ge famil finnly y be being ing entirely out of meat had recourse reco inse to the sheep foll foil of bl his s neighbor havin having g a large flock of sheep did not perceive that he had lost any until one of the finest of the flock very large and fat was missing and counting lifs his heep he p found be had 10 lost t several ee 1 unable to count account for this extraordinary ry loss he resolved a few nights after to watch about midnight he observed an uncommon 1111 disturbance among the sheep caused by tho sudden appearance of a man dressed in disguise curiosity as well as to observe tho the conduct of the person so as to find him out induced kirn him to lie still in the flock there was a ram with whom it seems the man was in t tho ho habit of conversing as if he had been the actual owner of the sheep well mr ram kam says the nocturnal sheep stealer 1 I am come to buy another sheep h have you I 1 any more to sell upon which he replied ai as in m person of the ram yes I 1 have sheep to sell by t this time the owner had disep discovered vered him to b be one of his neighbors what will you take for that large fat wether sal sa s the purchaser four doll dollars rs replied mr ir ram earn that is a very high price says the ninn but as you are so good as to wait V f for or the pay I 1 think I 1 will take him 51 wellar well mr ram continued he ae honest sheep buyer let us see how many sheep I 1 have bought ciyou of you 11 if I 1 am not mi mistaken stalken 5 says cheram th the eram ram 11 this makes the fifth and then went p nt on to cast up tho the amount of the whole and ving mr ram apolite invitation to call on biving S im m for hig hiff pay and bidding him good nigh while the owner lay laughing at the novelty of the scene as highly gratified as jf if he be had haa received ample pay for the whole afew A few nights afterward when he be supposed his neighbor was nearly out of ra mutton he caught tho old ram and tied a little bag under his seek neek and placed a aidee of paper between his herip horns on which he wrote in large letters 1 I have come for my money under this line he be footed up the whole amount of the five sheep exactly as his neighbor had done as before related he then took chetam the ram to his neighbors neighbor house where he tied him near the door and then went home when the neighbor arose in the morning he was not a little surprised su pried sed to find filid a sheep tied at his own door but it is beyond words to express his astonishment when he found etwas the old ram with whom he had bad lately been Aepli dealing nr so much in mutton with his hin errand on his forehead and the amount of five sheep actually made out as he be hid had dons a few nights before in the person of the ram suffice it to say he be obia obtained ined the money and after tying it up nicely in the little bag and tearing the paper from his horns set the xam ram at liberty who immediately tan home jingling his money as if proud of having accomplished the object of his errand to the no small gratification ri of the owner |