THE RED COW 



ing something happened that gave me an excellent 

 hint, and, besides, gives me a chance to moralise 

 wisely. A few minutes before the cattle were 

 turned out some one gave Sheppy a bone. It was 

 a nice fresh bone that offered much palatable gnaw- 

 ing, and he was taking no chances on losing it. 

 When he started to do his morning chore he carried 

 the bone in his mouth, and the result was that he 

 drove the animals without nipping them or making 

 them wiggle too wildly over the ice. Ah, my friends, 

 how often have I seen an ardent reformer, who was 

 in the habit of herding the unregenerate, abate his 

 passion for reform when he happened to get a nice 

 juicy bone in his mouth! Yea, I have even known 

 newspapers and political parties to be made much 

 more temperate in their expressions of opinion by 

 the timely contribution of a few bones. Here as- 

 suredly is a lesson for all of us. 



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