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THE SIMILITUDE OF THE COW 



Some years ago one of the educational institu- 

 tions, in furthering its nature-study work, asked 

 the school children to draw an outline picture of a 

 cow. One pupil in New York City sent in a sketch 

 — certainly original — showing a cow with udder 

 extending from the hind legs to the forelegs. I 

 suppose the youngster had taken the pattern from 

 the good old text-book picture of Romulus and 

 Bemus suckled by the she-wolf; but the child had 

 never known a cow, perhaps had never seen one. 

 His experience of country things was much like 

 that of another pupil in the same city who thought 

 clover was part of a box because a certain article 

 of food had come into his home in a container with 

 a clover-leaf brand. We who live in the open fields 

 little realize what crude mental pictures of animals 

 and plants lie in the minds of thousands of our 

 people. 



Note the cow lying down. Her fore feet fold 

 back under the body ; her hind feet project forward 

 but are not covered; her body is not flat on th© 

 ground, but tilted over to one side, the hind quar- 



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