She hissed, and screamed, till the Lambs cried, "Ba-a!"

When up from his straw sprang the gaping Calf,

With a gawky leap and a clammy laugh.

He stared—retreated—and off he went,

The wondrous news in his voice to vent,—

That he had discovered a

monster

there—

A

bird four-footed, and clothed with hair