Bingo 



aotion for sleeping at the barn and avoiding the 

 shanty altogether. 



When the spring came I set about his serious 

 education. After much pains on my behalf and 

 many pains on his, he learned to go at the word 

 in quest of our old yellow cow, that pastured at 

 will on the unfenced prairie. 



Once he had learned his business, he became 

 very fond of it and nothing pleased him more 

 than an order to go and fetch the cow. Away 

 he would dash, barking with pleasure and leap- 

 ing high in the air that he might better scan the 

 plain for his victim. In a short time he would 

 return driving her at full gallop before him, and 

 gave her no peace until, puffing and blowing, she 

 was safely driven into the farthest corner of her 

 stable. 



Less energy on his part would have been 

 more satisfactory, but we bore with him until 

 he grew so fond of this semi-daily hunt that 

 he began to bring ' old Dunne ' without being 

 told. And at length not once or twice but a 

 dozen times a day this energetic cowherd would 

 sally forth on his own responsibility and drive 

 the cow home to the stable. 



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