cow TROUBLES 



my teeth with determination I went at those cows 

 and in a few minutes each one of them had been per- 

 sonally conducted across the ice by an earnest man 

 who was earnestly twisting her tail. I then made the 

 discovery that twisting a cow's tail puts a lot of 

 ginger in her for when the last one was across they 

 began to romp around the field. I saw that I would 

 have trouble getting them into the stable and went 

 to the house to get some one to help. I don't think 

 I was in the house five minutes, but when I went out 

 again with reinforcements, those wretched cows were 

 on the other side of the government drain again and 

 headed towards the orchard gate. Apparently it was 

 no trouble at all for them to cross ice when on the 

 way to mischief. I may say that on the return trip 

 they did not wait for much tail twisting. Possibly 

 the second twist hurts more than the first. Anyway 

 they hustled back and didn't stop to argue with me. 



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