30 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



she wanted, but throw down armf uls under her feet, 

 and then, like all her dainty race, she would utterly 

 refuse to eat whatever had become dirty. If the 

 door was latched, she pushed the latch up ; if bars 

 were placed across, she removed them with her horns ; 

 if a rope was used, she broke or stretched it ; and if 

 she could not get in otherwise, she would tear the 

 whole away. 



After trying many plans, the door was ingeniously 

 hung from the top, so that, as was supposed, it would 

 effectually prevent her unauthorized inroads ; but 

 next day it was found at the other end of the yard, 

 having been carried thither on her head. Besides, 

 the amount of hay she ate seemed to have no effect 

 in diminishing the quantity of mash she wanted; 

 rather she appeared to carry into practice the decep 

 tive proposition of the stingy father to his hungry 

 sons that he who ate the most meat should have 

 the most pie by demanding more bran the more 

 hay she consumed. 



In spite of these drawbacks she was an immense 

 convenience. Her manufactory seemed to work bet 

 ter than more scientific and artificial arrangements, 

 and turned out a more agreeable article than the 

 most skillful chemical milkman. However disgrace 

 ful to human nature is the confession, science is no- 



