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ling the preceding one in richness." A cow in full 

 milk cannot be well drained under twenty minutes, 

 by the best hand. The udder should be kept well 

 trimmed, and with it the teats should be perfectly 

 clean before milking. The tail, also, should be free 

 from dirt, and every risk avoided of fouling the 

 milk. Upon the continent cows are curried, dressed, 

 and clothed like horses : without going to that ex- 

 treme, they may be rubbed with wisps and kept 

 clean, that their appearance may be creditable to 

 the family mansion. 



The following anecdote, which dates seven or 

 eight years since, may serve to exemplify the nature 

 of these animals, and to shew the necessity of both 

 their kind and careful treatment. Mrs. Bell, a widow 

 in Anan, N. B., went to milk her cow, when another 

 cow, which was grazing in the same meadow, ran 

 at her, threw her down, and was in the act of gor- 

 ing her, when her own cow came running up, at- 

 tacked the other with great fury, and succeeded, 

 not only in relieving, but in all probability saved the 

 life of her mistress. This act in the cow may indeed 

 be referred to mere instinctive impulse, urging her to 

 attack the other cow ; but with equal reason, to the 

 motive of defending her mistress, since the instances 

 of attachment in animals to particular persons, and 

 the demonstrations of it in acts of kindness and de- 

 fence, are innumerable. The denial of a limited 

 portion of the faculty styled reason, to brutes, can 

 only result from superficial thinking, from silly, over- 

 weening human prejudice, and defective observation. 

 In fact, what is reason itself, but discriminative in- 



