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up-stairs into a haymow. ‘They are, however, so 
intelligent that if you have about them just the 
right sort of human friends, you will convince them 
that common sense and common honesty are good 
policy. The last Ayrshire that I owned enjoyed 
nothing so well as to scrape a whole row of hens off 
the roost with her horns, and then whirl around to 
me with, “Say, wasn’t that well done?” It is a 
breed that can almost talk, and, for that matter, 
laugh. But, whatever the breed, I wish for a cow 
that I can sit down on when she is quietly chewing 
her cud in the yard; can pat and play with —a 
cow that is appreciative and responsive to kind- 
ness. 
As for a horse, it is part of a well-organized 
family, even yet — in spite of the trolley, the bi- 
cycle, and the automobile. There is in most 
human beings a natural horse sympathy that I 
cannot quite account for. The cow is despised 
as a “board-faced animal,’ while the horse is 
reckoned upon as the very model of animal allies. 
Part of this sentiment is to be accounted for on the 
basis of our own approach toward horse sentiment, 
rather than an education of the horse to human sen- 
timent. But if you find it possible to be the owner 
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