didn’t go for a ride. One year, some young fellows decided to try something different on Dolphie. They went to the barn, removed the ram from its pen, and succeeded in pushing it through the front door into the sun-porch. Then, they knocked on the window, and ran. They didn’t wait to see if Dolphie had much trouble getting the ram out, or not.

On another Hallowe’en night, some boys were returning home from a dance, and decided to play a trick on their neighbour who had been ploughing that day with a single plough. They entered his field, and turned the sods back into their original position, making it appear as if the field had never been ploughed at all. They were very surprised when their father made them rise early the next morning and put all the sods back in order before they went to church. Needless to say, they did not try that trick a gain.

Another time, some teenagers went to a house to steal apples from trees situated in front of a neighbour’s house. They were just ready to grab the apples when they heard “Baa! Baa!” The man had tethered a ram to the tree. The neighbour thought that it was even more effective than the whip, for they disappeared rather quickly, not even daring to look back.

Another group played a rather mean trick on a bachelor. They took a barrel from the corner of his house which was left there to catch rain water. They managed to lift the barrel up on the roof of the dwelling and placed it over the chimney. When the man tried to light the fire the next morning, the house was filled with smoke.

In another community, somebody took a ram from a field and tied it to the door of a house. They then knocked on the door and ran. When the lady of the house answered the door, she was almost knocked down by the animal that scurried to get indoors. Fortunately, no one was hurt in that incident.

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