THE RED COW 



dinary fence could withstand them. Of course, I 

 know that if I put an old-fashioned poke on this 

 brute it would probably beat her, because the pole in 

 front would go under the lower wires and bring them 

 against her chest, so that she would have to break 

 the wires to get through. But pokes haven't been 

 seen in this part of the country for years, and I am 

 afraid that if I made one and put it on this insur- 

 gent cow it would cause an awful lot of talk. People 

 going past in automobiles would see it, and they 

 would talk also. As it is getting near the end of the 

 season I shall get over the difficulty by keeping the 

 cow in at night and putting her out to pasture in 

 the daytime in a field that has proper woven fences. 

 I know the poke would do the trick, but really, 

 though you may not believe it, there are some things 

 that I haven't the nerve to do. 



When Fenceviewer II. is on her depredations she 

 indulges in one cow trick that I should like to have 

 the scientists explain to me. After she has eaten 

 all the apples she wants she makes for the hay stacks 

 and proceeds to root at them with her horns and to 

 push herself along against them as if she were trying 

 to knock them over. I have no doubt she does this 



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