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between Grip and the whole race of kine. 

 breaking out ever}' now and then into open 

 warfare, which calls for my prompt interfer- 

 ence, in an attitude of armed but benevolent 

 neutrality, merely for the friendly purpose of 

 keeping the peace. 



This ancient feud, I imagine, is really 

 ancestral, and dates many ages further back 

 in time than Grip's individual experiences. 

 Cows hate dogs instinctively, from their 

 earliest calfhood upward. I used to doubt 

 once upon a time whether the hatred was not 

 of artificial origin and wholly induced by the 

 inveterate human habit of egging on every 

 dog to worry every other animal that comes 

 in its way. But I tried a mild experiment 

 one day by putting a half-grown town-bred 

 puppy into a small enclosure with some 

 hitherto unworried calves, and they all turned 

 to make a common headway against the 

 intruder with the same striking unanimity 

 as the most ancient and experienced cows. 

 Hence I am inclined to suspect that the 



