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If she had been a domestic goat she would have 

 ignored the grass and eaten the towels, which re- 

 minds me that goats are not the, only animals ad- 

 dicted to eating manufactured fabrics. 



Once, while looking out of the window of a din- 

 ing car, I saw a young cow in a back yard calmly 

 chewing and 



SWALLOWING A FRESHLY-LAUNDERED SHIRT. 



She ate one whole shirt, and the sleeve of a sec- 

 ond disappeared as my train pulled out. 



Where the Licking River empties into the Ohio, 

 between Covington and Newport, Kentucky, on the 

 Covington side, there is a retaining wall of stone 

 built to keep the high bank from being washed 

 away during the floods. The top of this wall was 

 formerly a favorite lounging place for the Coving- 

 ton youngsters and the shale bar below was a 

 favorite spot from which to swim during low water. 



One day while sitting on top of the wall watch- 

 ing some boys in swimming I saw a young cow 

 walk up to the boys' heap of clothes below me 

 and calmly eat their damp little shirts; as the tail 

 of the last shirt disappeared I left, because the 

 boys were bigger than I was and I well knew 

 that I would be held responsible for those 

 shirts and that the cow story would not be be- 

 lieved. This showed caution and boy sense 

 on my part, but shirt eating does not appear to 

 be an intellectual pursuit even for a cow. 



