X20 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 



After this experience I found it necessary to give this pair of 

 bovines the closest surveillance both by night and by day, and by so 

 doing extracted much help and benefit from their many years of 

 service and usefulness, and I parted with these companions of many 

 happy hours and laborious, sweat-producing days, with sincerest re- 

 grets. 



It was an invariable rule with " Dick " in the later part of his 

 career, when unyoked at the end of his day's work, to stand at a 

 distance of about twenty yards from " Diamond," and nof to lie 

 down imtil the latter had done so, and then to lie down at a distance, 

 with his head towards his evil genius, whose every movement had to 

 be guarded against. 



