But soon the sun began to sink over the hill-tops, and she knew she
must take her sheep home before night overtook them.
She did not tell her mother of her misfortune, for she feared the old
shepherdess would scold her, and Bo-Peep had fully decided to seek for
the tails and find them before she related the story of their loss to
anyone.
Each day for many days after that Little Bo-Peep wandered about the
hills seeking the tails of her sheep, and those who met her wondered
what had happened to make the sweet little maid so anxious. But there
is an end to all troubles, no matter how severe they may seem to be,
and
It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
Unto a meadow hard by,
There she espied their tails side by side.
All hung on a tree to dry!
The little shepherdess was overjoyed at this discovery, and, reaching
up her crook, she knocked the row of pretty white tails off the tree
and gathered them up in her frock. But how to fasten them onto her
sheep again was the question, and after pondering the matter for a
time she became discouraged, and, thinking she was no better off than
before the tails were found, she began to weep and to bewail her
misfortune.
But amidst her tears she bethought herself of her needle and thread.
"Why," she exclaimed, smiling again, "I can sew them on, of course!" Then
She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye
And ran o'er hill and dale, oh.
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