motion of the lips, that stamping of the feet, all indicate a pressing
need of activity.

UNCLE CHARLES.




THE PET OF THE SHIP.

PART III.


One day when the ship was at anchor in one of the ports on the western
coast of South America, a number of sheep were brought on board. Whether
Dennis regarded them as intruders, or not, I cannot say; but his
treatment of them was anything but kind.

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The poor sheep stood in great fear of him, and fled in alarm whenever he
made a charge at them. One by one they began to disappear; and, at last,
only one--a little fellow whom the sailors afterward named Billy--was
left.

He was greatly distressed when the last of his companions was taken
away, and ran bleating about the deck in search of him. To add to his
troubles, that dreadful bully Dennis, who had been watching him for some
time, was now coming towards him. He was frightened nearly to death.