he way they do. They run races and play 'stump-the-leader'
and 'hi-spy' and 'ring-around-the-rosy.' Why, Miss Janet, if you were
out here a little later on, you would think it was _recess_ all the
time."

"I wish I might be," said Janet.

"A lamb likes to be on the go," he continued. "Sheep really ain't
lively enough for a lamb, so he has to go off and have his own fun. He
'll gallop around with a troop of other lambs and won't stop except
long enough to go home for dinner."

"I don't see," said Janet, "how a lamb can go away like that and ever
find his mother again, in such a crowd. They all look alike."

"That's easy enough. Every sheep's voice is keyed up to a different
pitch; they all sound different some way or another. And every lamb
has a little voice of his own."

"Yes, I've noticed that. But I did n't know there was any object in
it. Or that they knew each other's voices."

"Oh, certainly they do. When a lamb gets hungry he whisks right around
and runs into the flock and starts up his tune. She'll hear it and
she'll start up too; and that way they'll keep signaling to each other.
A lamb will run into a crowd of a thousand sheep and go right to his
mother. When he has arrived, maybe she will smell him to make sure;
and if he is all right, why--then it is all right."

"Then they don't ever go by looks, even when they're acquainted."

"Oh, no. They are different from people. They are not like you that
know all the children by sight and don't have to call the roll. When a
lamb wants to find a sheep, he just calls and she answers 'Present.'"

Steve Brown did not seem to lose sight of the fact that he was
addressing his remarks to a school-teacher. While something of humor
passed over his countenance at times, his attitude toward her was
mainly sober and earnest. Janet, all absorbed in the subject of lambs,
was in quite as serious a mood. She waited for him to continue; but he
was not one to keep on indefinitely without questioning, not presuming,
evidently, to know how much further she might be interested.

"She answers 'Present,'" repeated Janet. "Well, then; while they are
answering each other, does she go to the lamb or does the lamb go to
her?"

"Most likely they'll go to each other, and meet halfway. You see,
that's the quickest way, When a lamb is hungry he wants his dinner
right off."

"Then they are not any trouble in that way at all, are they!"

"Well--it's all easy enoug