Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-24

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perienced, then, for I've heard my master
say that any donkey could write better
stuff than a critic, and If he thinks that
donkey who wastes Nalf his time
wagging his ears and making heather
ish noises has more intellect than a
critic, why shouldn't calf have more
intellect than either, or both? don't
do thing all day but chew my cud and
think. think fearfully. From what
my master says q critic never does,
and my master ought to know, for he
says they are always trying to sit on
him.
wonder what kind of an animal
critic isl 1t must be big or else my
master, who is quite tall gentleman,
wouldn't mind its sitting on him.
Before my horns grew, when I was
quite silly little thing, used to fancy
that a critic was q big dog who had
puppies-like our Snoozer-tor she sits
on all the other dogs the moment they
go near the barn where her puppies are
but since I have grown older and
listened more carefully to the converse
ton of cultivated people, have learnt
that critic is something much bigger
and crcsser than our Snoozer. A foolish
thing like Snoozer couldn't say things
that my mistress would mind and cry
over; If she had even tried to, my mis-
tress would just have whipped her and
had her chained up in the barn for her
impudence. Still finding out that
Snoozer was not critic didn't help me
to learn who a critic was.
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cow who also belongs to my mistress,
and who has the foolishness to pre-.
/ tend that she is my real mother.
As if believed herl First of all she is a
very silly cow and has no ideas what
ever; and second of all, If she was
really my mother she would give me
! her nice rich milk when I'm thirsty, In.
stead of kicking at me, and saving 1t
all for Patrick-who is a man, not a
calf, and who can't possibly want milk
while want 1t so badly that have
to steal it from q friendly neighbours
COW, whenever she is tethered near
enough.
AS I said, asked Beauty who a
critic was; her answer was just what
might have expected.
my dear Ethel" she said, ST don't
know, or care any thing about O critic.
have all I can do to attend to my own
business. If I wasted my days wonder
ing about q critic shouldn't have time
to eat grass, then should fall off In
my milk, and biff-Crisfield would be
polxing me in the ribs to see how fat
was, and driving me off to make beef Of
me Just as he did to Deans Sadie, who
was the belle of Westchester County in
her day. Don't bother your head about
critic, my child; gambol round and
get strong until you go into the milk
business yourself, and then stick to it,
my dear, stick to 1t.
strolled contemptuously away from
her, but the indignant reflections I
might have INDUCED in were cut short,
for at that moment I saw my master
and mistress coming out of the garden
gate toward me.
like my people very much. They
are always very kind to me. My mis-
tress used to feed me with her own
hands when was small, and take me
up and down the yard with rope, and
give me dainty bits Of grassland take
me out on the lawn sunny days, when
Patrick-who I should have told you Is
my groom-used to want to keep me
cooped up in the stable.
Ny master is q very nice person, too.
but don't see so much Of him. He's a
painting man, so heard Patrick tell q
friend. don't quite know what that
is, and Patrick had some difficulty In
explaining 1t to his friend, but anyhow
he does something that keeps him sit
ting all day In front Of board while
my mistress and stay the other side OF
the brook, and he looks at us. got
H. Ia hoI 10 Il
to Beauty and looked to see what he
was doing, but all saw on the board
was q little cows head something like
Beauty's, and little lady's head some
thing like my Mistress and before
could find out more my master had
} chased me away.
My master generally stays at this
! board till afternoon, then he says he
has worked enough, and comes over to
my mistress, and they sit together under
} the willow and pat me and tell me how
. pretty am; you can't think how happy
we all are.
At times they get little more absorbed
with each other than think quite po-
} lite. spoke to James (the horse) about
THE says they are the most affection
ate couple he has ever seen-that hall
the time, when he takes them out, he
has to do all the driving himself, for
} they will get 30 interested In each other
, that If he didn't turn round sharp and
: bring them home they would drive on for
: ever. He told me that at first he wanted
: to leave-for he had always lived in
high families, and 1t is considered &C
+ questionable for married people te
like one another-but that after awhile
l he found them pleasant people and the
stable comfortable and the oats goot
l and plentiful, so he decided to put VI
: with them.
l When he told me this I decided ]
, could also afford to put up with theil
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