PASTURES FAIR AND LARGE 



of imagination. Neither can one blame her 

 for her innocent ignorance of property 

 rights. When she devours a panful of 

 apples carelessly placed on an unguarded 

 camp-table, or eats a choice head of lettuce 

 in a pail of water near by, or swallows, can- 

 nibalistically, a pound of her own best brand 

 of Jersey butter, one must remember that 

 from the cow's point of view all these items 

 on her bill of fare seem as naturally and 

 pleasantly hers as the unforbidden grass 

 under her feet. 



Even when she benevolently assimilates 

 half a cake of washing-soap, leaving on the 

 other half of the cake the curved and au- 

 thentic signature of her jaws, one's regret 

 is tempered by the fancy that she may be 

 unconsciously responding to modern anti- 

 septic standards of living. 



It would be ungracious, however, to close 

 this bovine record by the mention of these 

 less endearing idiosyncrasies of a cow, when 

 the permanent recollection of her and her 

 mates is mellowed and idealized by distance. 

 Forgetting all her little lapses, growing out 



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