Music of the Wild 



the cattle, dry-fed during the long winter, graze 

 and graze until the)' become so fat the milk they 

 gi^e grows richer, and housewives make what they 

 call "clover" buttei-. 



\MieD man treats tlie beasts that sustain and 



enrich him with tlie consideration he would like 



A Sign A\ere he a beast, ^\ e ha\'e one of the very highest 



of God in siyiis of the "race of God in the human heart. 



the Heart ^^V • n i i /■ > i i • i 



ihis study A\as made at almost lour o clock ui the 

 afternoon, 'when the cattle, after a day (^f grazing, 

 were lying in fullfed content. It was so early in 

 the season that hickory and late-leafing trees were 

 bare, but already the stock sought for their resting- 

 place the shade afforded by maple and elms. 



There A\as no real necessity for shelter. The 

 heat 'was not sutticient to A\'orry tliem, but the in- 

 clination to lie in the sliade ^'(•as instinctive. Scat- 

 tered around this pasture and in almost every 

 fence corner there grows a tree for the express pur- 

 pose of ])i-o-\'i(ling comfort for the stock and a 

 choir-loft for field musicians. How the cattle ap- 

 preciate this can be seen by their gathering to lie 

 in the stri]) of light shade in the early spring! If 

 they seek a sheltered s])ot when they really do not 

 need it, Avhat would become of tliem in the burn- 

 ing heat of July and August without it^ TIow 

 the bii'ds love it they tell you in their notes of 

 bubbling ecstasy. 



ISTot far from this ])asture are the grazing lands 

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