Jasmine Green Rescues a Lamb Called Lucky by Helen Peters
Author:Helen Peters [Peters, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781536218398
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
He put the eweâs own lamb back in the pen, next to the mother. She turned and sniffed his head as he began to suck from her udder.
âOK,â said Dad softly. âNow put the other one in.â
Full of sadness, Jasmine lowered Lucky into the pen. The ewe turned her head and sniffed him. Then, with a movement so swift that it took Dad and Jasmine completely by surprise, she lowered her broad head and butted him away. Lucky flew across the pen and landed in the straw, sprawled out and winded.
âYou see!â cried Jasmine as she gathered him up. âYou canât do this. She hates him.â
âIt can take a while,â said Dad. âThey donât usually accept a new lamb right away.â
Jasmine laid her cheek against Luckyâs face. âYou poor little thing. Are you all right?â
Lucky bleated and nibbled her ear.
âSheâll get used to him,â said Dad. âWeâll tie her up so she canât headbutt him.â
He fetched a rope halter from the corner of the barn and climbed into the pen.
âHold her head steady,â he said.
Burning with resentment, Jasmine held the eweâs big woolly head as Dad attached the halter and tied the rope around the rail.
âPut him back in there, Jas.â
Jasmine glared at her fatherâs back. Then she kissed Luckyâs head and lowered him into the pen. She held her breath as he dragged himself over to the ewe. The sheep tugged at her collar and swung her head to and fro to try to free herself. When that didnât work, she aimed a swift kick at Lucky.
The little lamb went flying. He crashed into the metal rail with a force that made Jasmine cry out in horror.
âHeâs bleeding!â
She scooped him out of the pen. There was a gash on his left back leg, just above the knee, where the eweâs sharp hoof had struck him.
Dad frowned and shook his head. âThey donât usually kick,â he said.
âYou canât put him back in there,â said Jasmine, holding Lucky tightly to her. âI wonât let you. Iâm not letting him go until you promise I can look after him.â
âShe might accept him eventually,â said Dad, âif he were big and strong enough to keep trying. But sheâs clearly going to put up a fight, and heâs not going to be able to take much more of that.â
âHeâs not going back in there,â Jasmine repeated. âIâm going to look after him myself.â
Dad gave a rueful smile. âAll right, Jasmine. You win.â
Jasmine gave a cry of delight. âOh, thank you, Dad! Did you hear that, Lucky? Iâm going to be your foster mother, not that nasty old ewe.â
âBed up that empty pen,â said Dad. âPut plenty of straw down, and Iâll stack a couple of those small bales around it, to keep out drafts.â
âIâll ask Mom to treat that cut on his leg, too,â said Jasmine.
âHe ought to go under a heat lamp really,â said Dad, âbut Iâm reluctant to use one again, after last year.â
Jasmine shuddered at the memory. Last spring, the lambing barn had caught fire when a heat lamp fell on the floor and set the straw alight.
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