Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-09
POOLING THE COW.
The Mean Trick Played on a Bovine
Mother In India.

Mother In India.
From the Inde pendent.
Early in my Indian experiences 1 heard
people talk of cows their market price,
amount of milk, yield. age. etc, just as at
home; so. although the COW of India i'm
pressed me rather queer looking. it did
not occur to me that she, while triflc
mere bovine than a COW elephant. is no
more our faithful, patient brindle than is
COW buffalo. Subsequently. more init
mate acquaintance with the creature her
moral character. her behavior. her super
stitions, suggested to me the truth.
The ways of the heather cow are pecu-
liar. She seems incapable of complete
domesticaton, retaining many of her wild
habits. She yields milk only while rear
ing her young. If her offspring be taken
from her the milk flow ceases. The at
tempt to milk her in the absence of. her
calf involves almost as much danger as
would the epdeavor to milk a giraffe. with
it's famed hoof power. One morning the
the calves had died in the night, and that
the mother refused to allow herself to be
MIXED. He explained deliberately that IL
the calfs skin should be stuffed and set up
before the COW at milking time she would
continue to give milk and would allow the
milk to be taken. He insinuatingly sug-
gested that if 1 should give him certain
rupees for the purchase of materials he
to me not only improbable. but very. In
America had MIXED more than one kick
ing cow Calmly, not to say loftily re-
que sting the swala to bring his pail. 1
marched down to the cow house, inwardly
resolved to see the reason why that COW
should not be milked-meaning to show
him that what an Indian could not do an
American could.
Outside the cowshed under the trees
the zebus were tethered in a row. They
PAID no attention to the half naked, brown
| gwala, but at my approach each, with
Wild eyes and uplifted head snoring and
trembling. seemed but for their RESTRAINING
| tether rope. about to bound away into her
| native jungle. The gwala called a second
man to his aid. With a new rope they
| lassoej the bereaved's hinder legs holding
| them in slipnoose One man held the
end of the rope while the other with the
pail cautiously approached the zebu. In a
twIDkling the pail was a rod away the man
| with the rope was pulling as for his life
the man with the pail was with II still !
was gasping to regain my breath, while
| tnat Zebu was kicking as nothing unpos-
sesssd could kick. She appeared utterly
| Indifferent as to whether there were ground
under her, as all four feet seemed con-
! tinuously in the air. The terpsichorean
I adept who was declared able to dance
l With
me foot six inches off de groun', de oder
| not quite touchin',
| must deliver up the palm
/ Thankful that my vaIorous resolu+foos
| ndu peeh iHentai, later l meekly gave tho
| swala exactly one-third of the amount
| ne had requested and directed him to stun
| the calfs skin. This having been az.
complished l was again summoned to the
scene of action. Though no abnormal da
velopment of either q:lills or ears was dis.
| cernibie there stood that remarkable COW
| contentedly licking and fondling her OF.
spring, occasionally lunching scantily upor
the hay stuffing, which protruded througl
the rudely sewed seams of her progeny's
h1de, while the native merrily MIXED awav
sitting, as Is customary, on the wrone