Grover's Little Lamb

(rover had a little lamb, .lust ItUe the nursery maid; Wllli Knirllsh shears he cllpped its ooi, And called tlie lainb "Free Trade." "Sald Grover, "Dan. we'll flnd ome day, When it the lamb we peej Thnt lü our care U's grown to be A rouslng IJritiHh sneep." The Inmb got Into coneress once, Aod lost it8 preclous wool ; The demócrata there cut 11 off, To please old Johnny Buil. And when the fall elecMnns came, said Grover, "Daniel, dear, We'll hear now from tliat little lamb Wlilch once we loved sodear. I wonder if the íleece has grown? I tliink nol, Dan, don't you? We cllpped li very close, you know. Kor England told us to." And whlle the president still had il is linie lamb in ralnd. somtthlng llke a cyclone struck II lm very hard behlnd. i Irlod (rover, "Öanlel, what was that? I'iti all broke tip, 1 am ; Was It a cydone on the jump?" "Mo, Grover, 'twas the lamb.'' Tliey liound a red bftndanaa on The brulsed and bleedlng spot ; They trled to whlsper word of cheer, Butclieered he would be not. And when they ralsed him up to ee Hik fleece-robbed little lamb, Be tound thal It had cown to be A big protectlon tam. "W'htit made the lamb butt Grover so?" Thechtldren osked at school; '"It was becauRe," the teacher Hald, "Herobbad Hof lts wool." Ar'd not a soul In all the land For Grover then was sad: Sin-h Is the simple story of The lamb Uiat Grover had.