The Pet Lamb Raising an animal from a tender age
often creates a strong bond between the foster-parent and his charge, and when the helpless creature happens to be a lamb, the attachment can become a bugbear, for a lamb follows blindly and obstinately. I remember one that just could not be kept out of the house and wanted to lodge with the family between feeds. For many weeks when we went out we expected to be followed by the pathetic and by then half-grown creature bleating for the affection that had once been lavished upon it. I thought of this lamb the other day when a friend told me of a farmer's wife who set out for the village quite unaware that the pet lamb was at her heels. At the grocer's shop she discovered that she was accompanied by the lamb and had to lead it home again—a touching sight for those who watched, but a source of exasperation for the lady in question, who had no doubt seen the lamb through its impressionable days and expected it to show some consideration for her dignity.
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