1 The new-born lamb Dickon had found three days before lying by its dead mother among the gorse bushes on the moor.
2 It was not the first motherless lamb he had found and he knew what to do with it.
3 A boy, and a fox, and a crow, and two squirrels, and a new-born lamb, are coming to see me this morning.
4 "That's the new-born lamb," said Mary.
5 The new-born lamb was in his arms and the little red fox trotted by his side.
6 There now, and he pushed the rubber tip of the bottle into the nuzzling mouth and the lamb began to suck it with ravenous ecstasy.
7 By the time the lamb fell asleep questions poured forth and Dickon answered them all.
8 He told them how he had found the lamb just as the sun was rising three mornings ago.
9 He was sitting in an armchair and a young lamb was standing by him shaking its tail in feeding-lamb fashion as Dickon knelt giving it milk from its bottle.
10 Dickon sat cross-legged with his rabbit asleep on his arm and a hand resting on the lamb's back.
11 A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb," etc.
12 The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
13 And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 14 Rose-red screamed and sprang back, the lamb bleated, the dove fluttered, and Snow-white hid herself behind her mother's bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED 15 So they both came out, and by-and-by the lamb and dove came nearer, and were not afraid of him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In SNOW-WHITE AND ROSE-RED