Music of the Wild 



the cattle, dry-fed during the long winter, graze 

 and graze until they become so fat the milk they 

 give grows richer, and housewives make what they 

 call "clover" butter. 



When man treats the beasts that sustain and 

 enrich him with the consideration he would like 

 A Sign were he a beast, we have one of the very highest 

 of God in s jg ns o f the grace of God in the human heart. 

 This study was made at almost four o'clock in the 

 afternoon, when the cattle, after a day of grazing, 

 were lying in fullfed content. It was so early in 

 the season that hickory and late-leafing trees were 

 bare, but already the stock sought for their resting- 

 place the shade afforded by maple and elms. 



There was no real necessity for shelter. The 

 heat was not sufficient to worry them, but the in- 

 clination to lie in the shade was instinctive. Scat- 

 tered around this pasture and in almost every 

 fence corner there grows a tree for the express pur- 

 pose of providing comfort for the stock and a 

 choir-loft for field musicians. How the cattle ap- 

 preciate this can be seen by their gathering to lie 

 in the strip of light shade in the early spring! If 

 they seek a sheltered spot when they really do not 

 need it, what would become of them in the burn- 

 ing heat of July and August without it? How 

 the birds love it they tell you in their notes of 

 bubbling ecstasy. 



Not far from this pasture are the grazing lands 

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