PASTURES FAIR AND LARGE 



and unaffected a cow can be and withal so 

 sturdily independent in all her acts. Once 

 in a great many moons men may remember 

 "nothing is more vulgar than haste"; but 

 the cow daily lives up to that maxim, and, 

 never J aving heard of Fletcher or Gladstone, 

 she yet surpasses both in the prolonged and 

 unwearied rhythm of her jaws. 



One also learns in a pasture that cows 

 are as different from each other in their 

 moods and manners as are cats and dogs. 

 While cows, as a rule, cannot be said to be 

 highly imaginative, they are by no means 

 unresponsive to the lure of the difficult and 

 forbidden. While camping in the New 

 Hampshire pasture I have mentioned, I once 

 saw a cow, of Evelike disposition, trying to 

 reach an apple on a high bough over her 

 head. There were several other apple-trees 

 near, whose fruit was easily within her reach. 

 But she would none of them. The difficult 

 was the beautiful to her, and for several 

 minutes she stretched her neck upward to 

 its utmost accordion-capacity, at the same 



time curling out her tongue to bridge the 

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