"It appears that one Seth Wright, the proprietor of a farm on the banks
of the Charles River, in Massachusetts, possessed a flock of fifteen ewes and a ram
of the ordinary kind. In the year 1791, one of the ewes presented her
owner with a male lamb, differing, for no assignable reason, from its
parents by a proportionally long body and short bandy legs, whence it
was unable to emulate its relatives in those sportive leaps over the
neighbours' fences, in which they were in the habit of indulging, much
to the good farmer's vexation. "
