under her care.

She had not gone far when she sighted another. As this one had dropped
out of the right wing of the army ahead, he was off to one side of her
present course. By the time she arrived he had already succeeded in
standing up; he even took a distinct step; then he shook himself like a
dog just out of water. Like the other lamb, he shook himself down; he
hit the ground with rather more decisive a drop. When he had again
mastered the difficulties, and achieved his reward, Janet sat down near
by and waited to see whether the two would become acquainted. This
again proved to be a happy union.

Janet felt a little disappointed. She had expected to be of some use.
Now that she had proved to be a mere looker-on she began to take
thought about the lamb's future. There came to her again those
words--"The coyotes would get them." She rose at once. A man would
carry them back to the corral; why not she? She took the lamb in her
arms intending to go off a distance and see whether the mother would
follow. The experiment proved unnecessary, however; the ewe not only
followed but kept close at her side. Accompanied thus by the mother
she went back to the first halting-place where the other ewe joined
them; thence she set a course straight for the shack, a lamb on each
arm and a sheep at each side of her. Things went much easier than she
had expected.

In this turn of affairs, she felt quite satisfied. Although it was the
first time she had ever touched a lamb or had any experience with a
sheep, the work seemed perfectly natural. Indeed, as she marched along
between the two watchful ewes, and hugged to her breast the warm
objects of their attention, it seemed to her--a very puzzling
delusion--that she had done this same thing before; it was like a
half-faded memory. Nor did it seem natural to think of Mr. Brown as a
stranger; it seemed that she had known him a long time ago--always.
Possibly this was because she felt so much at home in this sort of
work. Then, too, we dream dreams, and they have a way of bringing
themselves to pass in some shape or other.

Having reached the corral she managed to let down the bars without
getting the infants mixed up--a matter which had given her much
concern; and now that she had them safely inside she thought it
advisable to wait a while and make sure that family relations were
going to be permanent, after her interference. She rested herself by
sitting on the top