sed and run down
and put the lamn in the pen and clim after it. the
old sheep backed into a corner when i went towerds
her and stamped her front foot and befoar i cood
gump to one side she hit me with her head and
nocked me flat. i gnew beter than to get up and so
i roled over towerds her and got her by the legs and
then i got a good grip in her wool. we had a
regular rassel and she draged me all over the pen. i
held on like a good feler and bimeby i got her in a
corner head ferst. then the lamn woodent come to
suck. i gess he was scart. i dident blame him for
i was scart two. if i hadent been scart i would have
let go so i hollered for Keene but nobody caim. i
cood hear them ratling dishes and eating breckfast
and i was most starved to death and i dident dass to
let go of that old sheep. so i hung on and began to
call the lamn. it wood baa and come prety nearly
up and then run back. bimeby it come so near that
i cood reech it but when i let go of the sheep with
one hand she began to kick and strugle and i had
another rassel with it. i was most tuckered out
when she stoped to rest again. then i hollered for
sumone to come but nobody caim. then i hapened
to think that in the Swiss Family Robinson that the
father was triing to ride a wild ass and it kicked
and bit and rared and plungged and the only way to
stop him was to bite his hear. so when he rared up
strait he grabed his ear with his teeth and bit it
throug and the ass got down on his feet once more
and stoped kicking and biting and plungging and he
never had enny moar truble with him.

so i made up my mind that when that sheep began
to tare round again i wood try it. so bimeby the
little lamn come up close and i let go one hand to
stick the lamns head in place when the old sheep
began to try to get away and i got both arms round
its neck tite and grabed its ear with my teeth and
bit as hard as i cood. well i wish you cood have
saw what hapened. i never gnew wether she tirned
a back summerset or i did. i gess we both did. she
led out a baa and slamed me down on the floor and
trod al over me and butted me over and tride to
gump out of the pen. while i was on the ground
and she was steping on me i caugt her by the legs
and down she went and most squashed me flat and
one of her feet trod on my head. you jest bet i
hollered and then Keene and Cele and mother and
Aunt Sarah come out and told me to get out of the
pen befoar i was killed. i had been triing to