To dream of lambs frolicing{sic} in green pastures, betokens chastefriendships and joys. Bounteous and profitable crops to the farmers,and increase of possessions for others.To see a dead lamb, signifies sadness and desolation.Blood showing on the white fleece of a lamb, denotes that innocent oneswill suffer from betrayal through the wrong doing of others.A lost lamb, denotes that wayward people will be under your influence,and you should be careful of your conduct.To see lamb skins, denotes comfort and pleasure usurped from others.To slaughter a lamb for domestic uses, prosperity will be gainedthrough the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment.To eat lamb chops, denotes illness, and much anxiety overthe welfare of children.To see lambs taking nourishment from their mothers, denotes happinessthrough pleasant and intelligent home companions, and many lovableand beautiful children.To dream that dogs, or wolves devour lambs, innocent people will sufferat the hands of insinuating and designing villains.To hear the bleating of lambs, your generosity will be appealed to.To see them in a winter storm, or rain, denotes disappointmentin expected enjoyment and betterment of fortune.To own lambs in your dreams, signifies that your environmentswill be pleasant and profitable.If you carry lambs in your arms, you will be encumbered withhappy cares upon which you will lavish a wealth of devotion,and no expense will be regretted in responding to appealsfrom the objects of your affection.To shear lambs, shows that you will be cold and mercenary.You will be honest, but inhumane.For a woman to dream that she is peeling the skin from a lamb,and while doing so, she discovers that it is her child,denotes that she will cause others sorrow which will also reboundto her grief and loss. ``Fair prototype of innocence, Sleep upon thy emerald bed, No coming evil vents A shade above thy head.''[108] See Sheep.
