DISEASES TO WHICH HOUNDS ARE LIABLE. IGl 



poor dear cow in administering to the demand 

 for milk. 



If it was a wet or cloudy day, and feAV maid- 

 servants and tlieir charges walking about the 

 park, tlie cow stood, with her beautifully placid 

 eyes, munching her bit of hay and chewing the 

 cud of contentment as if she cared nothing about 

 the contents of her udder, which Iliad observed was 

 never very large. However, she supplied of a surety 

 the few calls that were made in bad weather on the 

 ^^ milky way," and no doubt those few women who 

 were so served answered the purposes of advertise- 

 ment of the sweet '' fresh warm milk " that could at 

 a moment be had under the trees in St. James's 

 Park. Then came the extraordinary circumstance 

 that induced me to connect the wooden box and 

 the cow together. ^' By jingo!" — I had caught that 

 expressive ejaculation from the man-servant attend- 

 ing my brothers, — '^ they milk the box on some days 

 more often than they do the dear cow!" This 

 audible assertion of mine arose from my seeing, 

 on days when the guns were fired in the park, or 

 on any fine gala days, that thousands of jDCople, 

 women and children, came for a draught of new 

 milk to this wonderfully capacious udder, and 

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