The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-11
BE Deaf to Evil Counsel.

AOh U OAIAo PC11OOUlJ OCAClOuo ILL.,
qrired Bossy Barney enthusiastically of
her neighbor.
" It IS NICE" replied Pinkie "but
just look there -
Bossy Barney looked in the direction
which Pinkie's eyes had taken, and there
was large field of corn. It did look
very tempting, with it's lovely green
stalks and waving tassels.
edo you see that ?" asked Pinkie.
eyes, see it, =" replied Bossy Barney;
"it's corn. :"
"Of course it is" said Pinkie, "and
I like corn better than clover"
EDO you," remarked Bossy Barney,
carelessly. She was very well-behaved
little heifer, and had never thought of
jumping fence in all her life.
"We could get over there very easily"
said naughty Pinkie. eth show you
how if you'll come"
"No indeed ~ cried Bossy Barney, in
indignant amazement. CT wouldn't do
such a thing for the world We're very
well off where we are. We don't get
sweet clover every day"
Thus repulsed, Pinkie 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.
It had been to her the scene of many joys
and SORROWS. There she was always
allowed to roam about the cornfeld at
her own sweet will, and there, alas, three
lovely little ones had been basely stolen
from her when they most needed
mothers care.
'EThat must have been ve7y hard =
said Bossy Barney, sympathetically.
{" 1t was dreadful, y sighed Pinkie; G.
shall never get over it-1aeUer!'
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 Pinl1ie walked slowly along
until she reached the fence, knowing well
that her companion would follow.
"Thats Ue4y fine field of corn, said
she, artfully.
Bossy Barney looked, and looking,
longed. It was indeed o ve1y fine field
of corn.
"This is not a strong fence" con-
tinued artful Pinkie. CT can just put
my horn in, 80, and lift this bar off, so
and we can walk in without any trouble ;"
and suiting the action to the word, she
was soon crunching 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 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-feld between herself and tempta-
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 corn-feld,
they heard an 0tgfuI voice close behind
them. It was the voice of their master,
but they didn't know it, it was SO
changed.
Pinlie 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-feld again.
Here she paused to take breath. It was
very hard to run, after such hearty
meal.
But her troubles were not yet 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,
" 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
[ can do is TO eat what grows just under
my nose. How I wish we'd let the corn
alone don't you, Pinkie2"
But Pinkie was sullen, and made no
reply.
F'I should never have done it in the
world if it hadn' been for her." thought
Bossy Barney to herself. 81 should
think she might answer civil question. "
She had yet to learn that those who tempt
their fellow-creatures to do wrong caro-
very little for their discomforts after