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)