The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-04

AHa browns, and hfiHaWts SNORT NofAH
long borus. erumplcd horns, aud nc
horns. Bnt VIC marked for oar own .
COW That was said to be full-blooded
whether Alderney, OF Durham, Or Gallo.
ways or Ayrshire, ! will not tell, lcsl
some catlle.faucier feel insulted by whai
I write, aud, II there Is any grace that
pride myself IN, Il is prudence, and .
determination always TO say smooth
things How much is bid for this mag.
! uiAcgu,, fuIl-blooded COW? cried the aue.
tioneer. seventy.hye dollars, shouted
some one. made Il eighty. He made
+. 70 ninety. Somebody else quickly made
.it a hundred. After the bids bad risen
10 one hundred and twenty-five dollars
. | got animated, and resolved that ! would
have that cow if It took my last cent.
One hundred and forty dollars shouted
my opponent The auctioneer said II
/ was the finest COW he had ever sold, and
not knowing much about yendues, Of
course ! believed him. IL was good
/ deal Of money for minister TO pay, but
/ then | gould get the whole matter of my
hands by giving note. In utter def
ance Of everything cried out, one hun
( drcd and fifty dollars! Going at last !
once twicel three timesl gone. Mr.,
/ Talmagc has 1t. Il was one of the proud
est moments Of our life. There she stood,
/ tall, immense in the girt, horns branch
ing, graceful as tree branch, full-ud-
dered, silk.eOated, pensiye.eyed.
/ We hired two boys to drive her home
while we rode IN carriage. No sooner
had we started than the COW showed
what turned out to be one Of her percu-
Iiaritics, great speed of hoof She left
the boys, outran my horse, jumped the
fence, frightened nearly to death a group
of school children, and by the time we
got home we all felt as II we had been all
day out on a fox chase.
We never had any peace with that cow
She knew more tricks than a iugger
She could let down any bars, open any
gate, outruu any dog, and ruin the pa
tence Of amy minister. We had her a
year, and yet she never got over wanting
to go to tho vendue. Once started out of
the yard she was bound to see the Sher-
i'll. We coaxed her with carrots, and
apples, and cabbages, and sweetest
stalks, aud the richest beverage of slops,
but without avail
As a mixer she was II failure. Mike,
who lived just back Of our place, would
come IN nights from his Kerry COW, a
scraggy runt that lived on the commons,
with his pail so full he had to carry it
cautiously lest it spill over. But after
our full-blooded COW had been in clover
to her eyes all day, Bridget would go out
to the barn-yard, and tug and pull for a
supply enough to make two or three GUS
tards. | said Bridget, you don't know
how to milk! Let me try. ! sat down
BY tho COW, tried the full force Of dyna-
mics, but just at the moment when my
success was about to be demonstrated, a
sudden thought took her somewhere be-
tween the horns, and she started for the
vcndue, with one stroke of her back foot
upsetting the small treasure had accu-
mulated, and leaving me mere wreck
of what once was.
She had among other bad things, a
morbid bad appetite. Notwithstanding we
gave her the richest herbaceous diet she
ate everything she could put her mouth
on. She was fond OF horse-blankets and
articles of human clothing, | found her
one day at the clothes line, nearly choked
to death, for she had swallowed one leg
of something, and seemed dissatisfied
that she could not get down the other.
The most perfect nuisance that ever
had about my place was that full-blooded
COW.
Having read in our agricultural jour.
mails Of cows that were slaughtered yield
/ mg fourteen hundred pounds neat
weight, we sold her to the butcher. We
set high price on her and got it-that
! is, we took note for it, which is the
same thing. My bargain with the butch
cr was the most successful chapter in my
/ bovine experience. The only taking-ofl
+ Ia the whole transaction was that the
! butcher ran away, leaving me nothing
/ but a specimen Of poor ebifography, and
/ I already had enough of that among my
manuscripts.
. My friends, never depend upon high
/ breeds. Some of the most useless Of cat
+ tie had ancestors spoken Of in the Com
mentarics of Cmsar. That Alderney,
whose grandfather used to Craze on q
lords park in England, may not be
worth the grass she eats.
DO not depend too much on the high.
sounding name Of Durham or Devon. A.
with animals, so with men. Only one
president ever had a president for sou
Let every COW make her own name, and
every man achieve his own position. Il
Is no great credit 10 a fool that he had 4
wise grandfather. Many an Ayrshire and
Hereford has had the hollow-horu and
f0at-root. Both mau aud animal are
valuable in proportion az they are useful
Mikes cow beat my full-bloOd.7-Ih
Befhodtt.
TuE HaAIN WORRY.
Many Of ns pray to be delivered frou
sudden death, aud do we worry ourselves