"HAVE OUR SHEEP ALWAYS BEEN DIPPED?"
The Story ofWool
BY
SARA WARE BASSETT
Author of "The Story of Lumber" and"The Story of Leather"
ILLUSTRATED BY
ELIZABETH OTIS
THE PENN PUBLISHINGCOMPANY PHILADELPHIA
COPYRIGHT
1913 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY
To
MY FATHER
It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the courtesy and coöperation of theUnited States Department of Agriculture.
S. W. B.
Contents
- A Mysterious Telegram 9
- Who Sandy Was 27
- The Dipping 36
- Sandy Gives Donald a Lesson 56
- Thornton Has a Reprimand 70
- Donald's First Adventure On the Range 82
- A Narrow Escape 103
- Donald Has a Surprise 122
- A Second Adventure 136
- A Prediction That Came True 152
- The Shearing 165
- Home to the East 183
- Donald Decides 204
THE STORY OF WOOL
CHAPTER I
A MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAM
Donald Clark glanced up from his Latin grammar and watched his father ashe tore open the envelope of a telegram and ran his eye over itscontents. Evidently the message was puzzling. Again Mr. Clark read it.Donald wondered what it could be. All the afternoon the yellow envelopehad been on the table, and more than once his mind had wandered from thelessons he was preparing to speculate on the possible tidings wrapped [10]up in that sealed packet. Not that a telegram was an unheard-of event inthe family. No, his father received many; most of them, however, went tothe Boston office, and the boy could not imagine what this one was doingat their Cambridge home.
The moment his father entered the house Donald handed him the envelopeand Mr. Clark quickly stripped it open; yet even though it now layspread out before him the mystery it contained appeared to be unsolved.It was seldom that Donald asked questions, nevertheless he f