THE COUNTRY HOME [chapter 



vacation home, while preaching in St. Louis, I was 

 told, " You will have to kill that pet Ayrshire cow of 

 yours ; she tried to kill her own calf, and it will take 

 a regiment to milk her." Going to the barnyard, I 

 found her tied up in a tight frame, with long pegs 

 in front and behind her fore legs, and similar pegs 

 confining her hind legs. Then one man, with a 

 long fly-brush, dusted the flies from her, while an- 

 other gingerly undertook to draw her milk. In 

 spite of ropes and pegs and bars, she made it lively 

 for them. I put a rope around her horns, and led 

 her out to some delicious grass. I did this two or 

 three times, without making any remarks to her. 

 Then one morning I went to the gate, and holding 

 up the rope, said, "Juno, hold your horns, and let 

 me put this on quietly, and you shall have your 

 grass." It was a good half hour's argument, but 

 at last she brought her head to the bars, and actu- 

 ally helped to get the rope around the horns. In- 

 side a single week she would stand quietly any- 

 where in the open meadow, while a decent man 

 could milk her without a battle. 



Mr. Cornish, in an admirable volume concern- 

 ing animals, compares them with children. He 

 says: "No one can have failed to notice how par- 



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