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than half paid. The age of a cow is known from the 

 horn. After their third year, a rim grows annually 

 about the horn, as circles do around the bole of an 

 elm. But the file and a piece of glass can do much 

 to baffle the learned herein. 



There is not much good to be done with a kicking 

 cow. They may certainly be strapped up, but that 

 involves a great waste of time and trouble : some 

 persons they will more kindly allow to approach 

 them than others : a sour visage certainly affects a 

 cow's temper; but you had better feed at once, or 

 sell a milker of this stamp, for it certainly is not 

 profitable to have your unfortunate attendant often 

 come marching " into the house with a grave step, a 

 long face, an apology, and an empty pail." And so 

 to dairying adieu ! for the various local modes of 

 compounding cream and cheese I cannot here un- 

 dertake. 



