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woods and not come back until he had found the 

 cow and brought it with him. 



Onlj' once did lie make a mistal-ce. Then he 

 brought home a cow belonging to a neighbor. The 

 cow had broken through into his master's pasture. 



" Why, Jerry," said his master when he saw it 

 " this isn't our cow." 



Jerry and the lost Cow 



No do^T could have looked more ashamed than 

 Jerry did then. His ears drooped; he clapped his 

 little stump of a tail tight down, and turned to 

 slink away. " Go get the other," said his master. 



Jerry ran down to the pasture for the third time. 



