n to hurt them, and the
dogs lay round on the outside to guard them, and to bark if any body
came near; and in the morning the shepherd unpenned the fold, and let
them all out again.

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Now they were all very happy, as I told you, and loved the shepherd
dearly that was so good to them--all except one foolish little lamb. And
this lamb did not like to be shut up every night in the fold; and she
came to her mother, who was a wise old sheep, and said to her, "I wonder
why we are shut up so every night? the dogs are not shut up, and why
should we be shut up? I think it is very hard, and I will get away if I
can, I am resolved; for I like to run about where I please, and I think
it is very pleasant in the woods by moonlight." Then the old sheep
said to her, "You are very silly, you little lamb, you had better stay
in the fold. The shepherd is so good to us, that we should always do as
he bids us; and if you wander about by yourself, I dare say you will
come to some harm." "I dare say not," said the little lamb. And so when
the evening came, and the shepherd called them all to come into the
fold, she would not come, but crept slily under a hedge and hid herself;
and when the rest of the lambs were all in the fold and fast asleep,
she came out, and jumped, and frisked, and danced about; and she got out
of the field, and got into a forest full of trees, and a very fierce
wolf came rushing out of a cave and howled very loud. Then the silly
lamb wished she had been shut up in the fold, but the fold was a great
way off. And the wolf saw her and seized her, and carried her away to a
dismal den; and there the wolf had two cubs, and the wolf said to them,
"Here, I have brought you a young fat lamb." And so the cubs took her,
and growled over her a little while, and then ate her up.

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Harry said that was a very naughty lamb.

It now began to be quite dark, so Harry and I returned home. Then we had
a long talk about what we had seen during the day; and then Harry had
his bread and milk for supper, and then he said his prayers and went to
bed.

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