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Show LIKE THE WOLF AND LAMB Inoffensive Creatures Most Unjustly Charged With Sudden Attack of Btoodthlrrtlness. A man who was caught in the act of skinning a neighbor's sheep, covered cov-ered his embarrassment by declaring that no sheep could bite him and live. The logic of this is equaled by that of the Yankee soldier who once had a narrow escaiie from an enraged gander. gan-der. The men of a certain Maine regiment, regi-ment, which was in the enemy's country coun-try in 1SG2, considered the order "no foraging" an additional and uncalled-for uncalled-for hardship. One afternoon about dusk, a soldier was seen beating a rapid retreat from the rear of a farmhouse farm-house near by, closely pursued by a gander with wings outspread, whose feet seemed scarcely to touch the ground, and from whose beak issued a succession of angry screams. The fugitive was not reassured by the cries of the ganger's owner: "Hold on. man, hold on! He won't hurt you!" "Call off your gander! Call him off!" shouted the fleeing soldier. Neither man nor gander stopped until inside the camplines, when the soldier's friends relieved him of his fierce pursuer pur-suer with the aid of the butt of a I musket. "Did that gander think he could chase me .like that and live!" j the soldier exclaimed, as he surveyed the outstretched bird; but he said nothing of the baited hook, with cod-line cod-line attached, which might have thrown light on the unfortunate gander's gan-der's strange actions. |
