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ski a soft and silken, and with a golden hue (if of 

 good family), which gives best of promise for the 

 cream-pot. Above all they have a tractability which, 

 in a domestic pet, is a most admirable quality. * Spot,' 

 (the black and white Alderney,) the children can 

 fondle ; she can be tethered to a stake upon the lawn, 

 and will feed as quietly as if she were in a field of 

 lucerne : she is grateful for a bonne bouche from the 

 garden, and takes it from the hand as kindly as a 

 dog. This docility is a thing of great consequence 

 upon a little country place where every animal is 

 made more or less of a pet. It is not every cow that 

 will bear tethering upon a lawn ; there are those 

 indeed who can never be taught to submit to the 

 confinement. The sleek Alderneys inherit a capacity 

 for this thing, and I have seen upon the green 

 orchards near to St. Hiliers, (Isle of Jersey,) scores 

 of them, each cropping its little circlets of turf as 

 closely and cleanly as if it had been shorn. In way 

 of convenience for this service, it is well to have an 

 old harrow tooth with a ring adjusted to its top, 

 and revolving freely, upon which ring an iron swivel 

 should be attached. To such a fixture, easily moved, 

 and made fast in the ground by a blow or two of a 

 wooden mallet, a halter may be tied without fear of 

 any untwisting of the rope, or of any winding up or 

 other entrapment of the poor beast. I give these 



