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veloped in a high degree. We have seen little black 

 Kerry cows go down on their knees that being the 

 first movement when a cow lies down, and therefore 

 quite familiar to them as a means of ' stooping ' and 

 literally creep under the chains suspended between a 

 row of posts which divided them from a lawn on which 

 they desired to walk. Bulls are even greater trespassers, 

 though rougher in their methods. Some bulls always 

 smash the gate of any field they are kept in. Others 

 use gentler methods, and turn up in most unlikely 

 places. A young bull and heifer in the Isle of Wight 

 got out of a field, and were found together next 

 morning in a ground-floor room of an empty house. 

 This bull had a taste for midnight trespassing, and 

 on one occasion found its way into a field, where it 

 bellowed loudly. Its owner, thinking that a cow was 

 ill, went with a lamp to see what was the matter. The 

 lamp was extinguished with some haste when he dis- 

 covered who the visitor was. 



Trespass by birds sounds like a paradox, for it 

 suggests an exclusive claim to the use of the air above 

 the owner's property. As a fact, certain birds are 

 inveterate and wilful trespassers, but they nearly always 

 trespass on foot. The greatest offenders are ducks, 

 geese, and guinea-fowls and chickens, all of which are 

 quite aware, or very soon learn, when they are on 

 forbidden ground, but are only too eager to go there 



