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school-boys. Arrived in the square, a dense 

 crowd had collected about the Jersey, who, 

 blanketed and guarded by two burly Irishmen, 

 stared inquiringly about until she saw me, when 

 she gave a soft moo of recognition. With some 

 difficulty the officers cleared a large ring, in the 

 centre of which stood the cow, Mike, Pat, the 

 honorable Court, the respondent, the complain- 

 ant, the attorney for the prosecution. 



I then addressed the court as follows : " May 

 it please the Court; I now propose to demon- 

 strate by the clearest evidence possible how far 

 the malicious ingenuity of a vicious old man, 

 and a bad neighbor, will go to make trouble for a 

 person who never did him an unkindness, in 

 short that the cow never was hurt or tortured or 

 branded ; that the whole thing was an innocent 

 joke, a fool joke perhaps, but one that never hurt 

 or injured any one or anything." 



I then stripped off the blanket, and there in 

 plain sight were the various marks on the cow's 

 hide. At my request the court and the attorney 

 ran their hands over her and found no scars. 



"Now, to show your Honor how these marks 

 were made - 



"It is unnecessary," said the court, "I have 

 owned cows myself, and perhaps I can illustrate 

 as well as you"; and stepping forward, with 

 rapid hands he fashioned upon her side the word 



