Babe The Gallant Pig
CHAPTER 7: Sheep-Dog Trials
Farmer Hogget brought Fly and Babe to a sheep-dog trail, and now you get to see what a sheep-dog trial is all about! We know that two shakes of a lamb's tail is an idiom that means quickly. Watch the video below to see just how quickly a lamb's tail shakes.
1954 Sheep-Dog Trials
2020 Sheep-Dog Trials
Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail
"'Youngsters, down you go to the collecting pen if you please, there's good boys and girls,' and it could have been done in the shake of a lamb's tail." (p. 64)