You must be familiar with the following nursery rhymes:
i. ‘Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool.’
ii. ‘Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.’
Answer the following:
a. Which parts of the black sheep have wool?
b. What is meant by the white fleece of the lamb?
(a). The hairy skin called fleece* has wool in the black sheep.
(b). White fleece*of the lamb means white coloured hair of lamb that is used to make wool.
fleece*: It is the woolly covering of a sheep or goat.