The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26

try cow would let down in every
thing but milk, and die. The coun-
try COW has little to do but rove in
pastures green, during the summer
months, and turn herself into a
straw stack for winter quarters
whilst q town COW is compelled from
the force of circumstances to be live
ly in looking up her living, and, with
the exception of a pinch of bran and
salt, by which she is defrauded each
milking time into the idea that if she
will come Up next time she will get
more, she is thrown exclusively upon
her own resources; hence the superb
or acuteness of intellect found in the
town cow. While. a country COW
would stand bawling over a garden
fence at a row of cabbagcs, a town
COW would unite a rope with her
teeth, lift the latch of a gate with her
horn, and devour cabbages enough to
furnish herself cud for chewing for
two days, and the owner of the cab
bages a subject for ''cussing" for dou-
BILE that time.
There is yet another distinction be-
tween members of the same family of
cows, which it is somewhat difficult
to account for. We refer to the fact
that a COW is occasionally found with
out horns-the rule being, that each
cow is furnished with two horns.
John Robinson has one with three
horns. but that COW is an OK. Horn
less COWS are known as "muleys,"
POSSIBLY from the fact that the first
one of the kind was rendered horn
less by the kick of a mule) and do not
seem to differ in other respects from
their horned sisters. Naturalists have
not given us any well founded reason
for this phenomena, but in our opin-
ion, it is the result ofan occasional
abortive attempt to get up a CORNER"
in the comb market.
There is an exceedingly rare breed
of cows known ae "STUMP-TAILs," of
which but little is known except that
their utter inability to defend them
selves, renders them the prey of all
ca%rniverous insects in "fy time"
which so curdles their blood and
sours their temper as to cause them to
give sour milk exclusively. This
seems to be o provision of nature
whereby our women are supplied
with "sour milk" with which to make
buckwheat batter and other esculents
requiring an acidulous ingredient.
The cow will be found by the care
full student to be frequently mention
ed in history. Moscow, a somewhat
celebrated city, doubtless derives its
name from the fact that Napoleon, or
some other invader, stripped the
country of all forage, and drove the
COW to a subsistence upon moss,
whilst the Mos-cow-bell is the largest
COW bell known in ancient or modern
Thenthere is the COW with
horn that tossed the dog,
that worried the cat that caught the
rat, that cut the cord that tied the
sack, that held the malt, that lay in
the house that Jack built-that will be
remembered by every lover o fjuve-
nile history, to say nothing of the
that assisted in exciting the risi-
bles of the dog by vaulting over the
MOON.
The accidental slipping ola COW
upon a plant, till then unknown, gave
the name "cow-slip" to one of our
earliest spring flowers. A COW at an
early period of the worlds history,
in a playful mood, licked a boy over
the forehead, and since that time
many a boy, and many a girl, too, has
been tortured with that pestiferous
''cow-licE that never will lie down.