The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-02
he Deaf to Evil Counsel.

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BE Deaf to Evil CouIeel.
Pinkie and Bossy Barney stood almos
up to their knees in fragrant clover.
Isn't this perfectly delicious 20 in
q1ired Bossy Barney enthusiastically o.
her neighbor
" It IS NICE replied Pinkie .sbut
just look there 70
Bossy Barney looked in the direction
which Pinkie's eyes had taken, and there
was large field of corn. It did loob
very tempting, with its lovely green
stalks and waving tassels.
Do you see that ?'' asked Pinkie.
s' Yes, see it, % replied Bossy Barney;
"it's corn"
tsOf course it is," said Pinl6ie, '' and
I like corn better than clover
do you" remarked Bossy Barney,
carelessly. She was a very well-behaved
| little heifer, and had never thought of
jumping fence in all her life
eve could get over there very easily, y
said naughty Pinkie. s'In show you
how if you'll come"
No indeed !" cried Bossy Barney, in
indignant amazement. 81 wouldn't do
such thing for the world, We're very
well off where we are. We don't get
sweet clover every day
Thus repulsed, Pinie thought best to
change the subject of conversation. She
said no more about the corn, but dis
coursed eloquently of the beautiful farm
upon which she used to live, where the
grass was greener than any she had ever
seen since, and more delicious even than
the clover which they were then eating
1t had been to her the scene of many ioys
and SORROWS. There she was ALWAYS;
allowed to roam about the cornfield at
her own sweet will, and there, alas, three
lovely little ones had been baseIy stolen
from her when they most needed a
mothers care.
That must have been e.e7y hard .
said Bossy Barney, sympathetically. "
'' 1t was dreadful, sighed Pinkie; sc I
| shall never get over it-aerer!'
Bossy Barney tapped Pinkie's face and
neck with her rough tongue. It was
her way of saying, 81 am very sorry for
you
| Cunning Pinkie walked slowly along
until she reached the fence, knowing well
that her companion would follow.
| :" That's ue'y fine field of corn, - said
| she, artfully.
Bossy Barney looked, and looking,
| longed. It was indeed rery fine field
of corn.
''This is not strong fence,'' CON
tinued artful Pinlie. ''I can Just put
| my horn in, SO, and lift this bar off, so ;
| and we can walk in without any trouble -
and sriting the action to the word. she
was soon crr1nching the delicate kernels
+" You'd better come" she cried
''you never tested anything nicer in all
| your life. -
! At first Bossy Barney resolved that she
wonld not go but it was very hard to
! stand there and see Pinkie devouring ear
after ear, and to feel that, but for few
troublesome scruples of conscience, she
might be enjoying their sweetness too
She was a very good COW, but she felt
| that she was tried beyond her strength
| Well would it have been for Bossy
Barney had she placed the length of the
! clover-field between herself and tenlpta-
ton but she didn't. She walked nearer
and nearer to the bars, and at last
| thought she would just jump over and
taste. There was no harm in that, surely.
She could come back at any time.
| Alas! alas once over, she could not
persuade herself to return Indeed, she
did not try very hard. The corn was SO
very luscious, she really could not bear
to leave it.
About an hour afterward, as the cows
still stood in the midst of the cornLfeld,
they heard an atcful voice close behind
them. It was the voice of their master,
but they didn't know it, it was so
changed.
| Pinkie made for the bars, as fast as
| she could go; but Bossy Barney was SO
| frightened she could not tell which way
to turn.
Here What are you about2 Get
out of that - and whack, whack, whack
came heavy stick upon her back. She
ran hither and thither, but the blows
came thicker and faster. At last she
/ spied the bars, and over them she went,
and found herself in the clover-fieldtag
Here she paused to take breath. 1t was
very hard to run, after such hearty
meal.
But her troubles were not vet over.
The farmer drove them up to the barn
yard, where was neither corn nor clover,
and there they stayed until it was time
/ for them to be MIXED and put to bed.
And the next day, when they appeared
in the field, each wore small Square
board which nearly covered her face,
entirely concealing her eyes.
"Dear me ~ exclaimed Bossy Barney.
9 this is awful! One might as well be
blind and done with it. I can't tell
whether the sun shines or not. All that
1 can do is TO eat what grows Just under
my nose. How L wish we'd let the corn
alone don't you, Pinkie2"
But Pinkie was sullen, and made nc
reply.
6 I should never have done it in the
world if it hadn' been for her, thought
Bossy Barney to herself. ST should
think she might answer civil question. 9
She had yet to learn that those who tempt
! their fellow-creatureS TO do wrong care
very little for their discomforts after