THE COW THAT SAID ''PLEASE.' 



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as to please 

 call on the 

 shetlioiight it 

 so she said, 

 noise, coming 

 fi'igh tened 

 m a k i n g a 



the cow did. 



by telling 



Aunt Bessie hurried her dinner, so 

 the little boy. She took him first to 

 cow. Her name was Whitefoot, and 

 was nearly time she had her dinner, 

 "Moo!" very loud. Such a loud 

 from such a great, big creature, 

 Freddie, and he began to cr}', 

 great deal more noise than 

 Aunt Bessie tried to quiet him 

 him that Whitefoot wa* only 

 saying "Please," because 

 she wanted her dinner. 

 Freddie told mamma af- 

 terwards that he would 

 like that cow better if she 

 wouldn't talk so loud. 



Whitefoot seemed to 

 be quite 

 as much 

 surprised 

 at Fred- 

 die's big 

 noise as 

 Fr eddi e 

 was at 

 hers, and 

 she didn't talk any 

 luore. Aunt Bes- 

 sie patted her nose 

 aiid gave her some 

 cornstalks. After 

 a little while Fred- 

 die grew brave enough to feed her with some of the longest 

 stalks. 



Every day Uncle John gave him a ride out to the garden in his 

 wheelbarrow, and back again on top of his load of cornstalks. 



