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where against a cow. To be sure, she would on 

 wash-days carry a few clothes off the lines, and drag 



them around in the most nonchalant and unconcern 

 ed way conceivable ; would even now and then get 

 her horns mixed up with the lines generally, and pull 

 out half a dozen hooks ; but the moment this was 

 done she was entirely satisfied, and would stand per 

 fectly quiet until she was disencumbered. She made 

 more dirt than was altogether sightly, and a man had 

 to be engaged to come daily and remove it. 



These various eccentricities added somewhat to 

 her cost, and made it difficult to compute the amount 



