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Title: The Story of Wool

Author: Sara Ware Bassett

Illustrator: Elizabeth Otis

Release Date: March 17, 2008 [EBook #24858]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "HAVE OUR SHEEP ALWAYS BEEN DIPPED?"]

The Story of Wool

BY

SARA WARE BASSETT

Author of "The Story of Lumber" and
"The Story of Leather"

ILLUSTRATED BY
ELIZABETH OTIS

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

COPYRIGHT
1913 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

_To
MY FATHER_

_It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the
courtesy and cooperation of the United
States Department of Agriculture._

_S. W. B._

Contents

I. A Mysterious Telegram 9

II. Who Sandy Was 27

III. The Dipping 36

IV. Sandy Gives Donald a Lesson 56

V. Thornton Has a Reprimand 70

VI. Donald's First Adventure On the Range 82

VII. A Narrow Escape 103

VIII. Donald Has a Surprise 122

IX. A Second Adventure 136

X. A Prediction That Came True 152

XI. The Shearing 165

XII. Home to the East 183

XIII. Donald Decides 204

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THE STORY OF WOOL

CHAPTER I

A MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM

Donald Clark glanced up from his Latin grammar and watched his father as
he tore open the envelope of a telegram and ran his eye over its
contents. Evidently the message was puzzling. Again Mr. Clark read it.
Donald wondered what it could be. All the afternoon the