WOODMYTH & FABLE <^'lj 



wish I could spare them this pain ! *' So 

 the Graybeard, with his man, caught the 

 terrified sheep one by one, while a butcher 

 in a blue blouse sat on the fence and grin- 

 ned. Each sheep suffered a sharp pang 

 when the inoculator pierced its skin. Each 

 was more or less ill afterward. But all 

 recovered, and the plague which swept 

 the country a month later left only them 

 alive of all the countless flocks. 



Scene II. Among the sheep. 



First Sheep: '*Ah, how happy we 

 should be but for that treacherous gray- 

 bearded monster! Sometimes and for 

 long he feeds us and seems kind, and then 

 without any just cause there is a change, 

 as the other day, when he came with his 

 accomplice and ran us down one by one 

 and stabbed us with some devilish in- 



