Show lamb Is killed Kif fied for fox theft 1 hungry and self invited to the little littie porker Por kers feast suffer suffers the direct direst of penalties a tacoma an old mother pig with halt a dozen youngsters escaped from a pea pen on th tha reservation the other day and wandered along the road to an enclosure where here a flock of sleep were awaiting the fulfillment of the tile end for which it seems they were created in response to squeals of protest from the youngsters against the long time between drinks the mother pig lav lay den down against the fence js bithal IT I 1 tha time a halt starve sta ve woolly wobbly lamb that had lost its mother squirmed under the fence and tor for a moment gazed longingly at the sleek inive porkers and the seemingly inexhaustible source of milk it was only a moment however with all the strength in its emaciated little body he lamb started for a vacant place at the counter the newcomer stampeded tn tr rightful claimants and thy stood a few feet away grunting and squealing indignantly the old pig notice the change for she lay quite still giving A 4 contented grunt occasionally before long the middle of tho the intruder began to stick out like a toy balloon and when it could bold hold no more it backed unsteadily way war had the lamb been marys marya and started for school right after lunch this 1 ry might nover never have been written but it stood there n v moment blinking stupidly ahat hat moment was long enough for the old mother moth r pl lq to gel up P she made a i at A I 1 the to lamb there were half halt a dozen vicious snaps a smothered bleat and the little waif wait dropped limply to the gr ground ilund then every one of those little pigs jumped viciously upon the inanimate little heap in less time than it takes to tell it there was nothing left but the bead head hoofe hoofs and a few scrape scraps of blood i stained wool this etory story Is fit vouched tor for by H C iv ernne who lives cael east of t iho the city on the edgewood Edgo wood road |