1.Some children were spending their holidays near a loch on the west coast of Scotland.In Scotland the word loch sometimes means.
2.This loch was a long arm of the sea running，inland for many miles among the hills and mountains.If it had been a fresh-water lake there would have been no tide；but here therewas a constant ebb and flowopen sea.
3.There was a little island in the loch，on which about a score of sheep and lambs used to graze .At low tide they could go all over the island；but at high tide the water came right across the middle of the island，and made two islands instead of one.
4.One day，when the tide was out，a little lamb strayed
from its mother and went to the other end of the island.The mother sheep was feeding behind a clump of trees，and did not miss her little one.The lamb did not notice that the tide was coming in.It knew nothing about tides.
5.Soon the water flowed across the middle of the island，and became so deep that the little lamb could not get back to its mother.It stood at the water‘s edge bleating very sadly，and the mother came running as soon as she heard the cry of her little one.
6.But the water was too deep even for the mother to wade across.So the sheep stood on the one side of the water，and the lamb on the other，bleating to each other and crying for help.
7.For a long time no one heard them.At last the children，who had been out rowing in a little boat，came near the island，and saw the little lamb and its mother.The children knewthat it would be some hours before the middle of the island would be dry.
8.They took pity on the poor lamb，and rowed up to it.One of the boys lifted it into the boat，and they took it across to its mother.
9.The little lamb learned the lesson that “time and tide wait for no man.”It never went to that end of the island again without its mother，and she seemed to watch it carefully when the tide was coming in.
GRAMMAR EXERCISE
1.Name the nouns in sections 1to 4.
2.Give sentences containing flow，cry，and help，as nouns and as verbs.
