Sheep, and all cattle, are very fond of licking up salt from the
ground, and they will go a long way to find it. It keeps cattle
healthy. The old ram, as soon as he smelled the salt, began licking it
up with his tongue.
He paid no more attention to the men standing in front of him, though
if the salt had not been there he probably would have run at them, and
knocked them down with his big curved horns.
"Now's our chance!" whispered Mr. Bobbsey, as if the ram could
understand what was said. "Get a rope and we can tie him up."
"I'll get one," offered the hired man, and when he came back with the
clothes line Uncle Daniel made a loop in one end, such as the cowboys
on the Western plains make when they lasso cattle.
And while the ram was busy licking up the salt, Uncle Daniel tossed
the noose of the rope around the sheep's head, and, in another second,
he and Mr. Bobbsey pulled it tight.
"Oh, they've caught him! They've caught him!" cried Nan, who stood
near Flossie at the window.
"Come on out and look at him!" said Bert.
"No, no!" objected his mother, as the two boy cousins started from the
room.
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