The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-04

when ScoIded BY Their Maiden
Hcrdcrs.
From the London News,
In this Alpine valley of peasant pro-
prietors the COW occupies position as
dignifed as the Irish ''gintlemau that pays
The rint" A farmeress said, in tho soft.
plaintive tones that are characteristic Of
thus part of the world: The COW is such
nice compauyw Another NaVoguian
amended the sentiment in this way; mice
company, indeed; and so warm in winter,
| too
The chalets are so arranged that the
| lowest parts house the COW or cows. As
! the beasts need fire in winter at $500
feet above sea level, the stove is in the
stable, and a part of that apartment-di-
vided off-becomes the kitchen and living
room. Eight months out of the year the
| cattle must be kept indoors in these
snowy uplands. There is thus plenty of
| time for a family to make friends with
its beasts, and for the contemplative DO
vine eyes to take in great deal about
the human neighbors in the winter draw
! ins room. a girl who has lived up here
| for the whole of her twenty-one years told
! me that cows had each a character of
| its own. like people" one beast when
! fed would bar Filida's passage, imprls-
oning tho girl in an angle between two
! wallis. ne COWS little body making the
base % the triangle. Other cows would say
| Stay PEREZ! in the same forcible way,
when their friend had laid tha'r bundle
OF hay at their heads; but Flda says "a
word 10 them (and their nance would set
mo free"
BidnbIe Animals.
An Irish cowherd used TO speak of tho
! "pidabIe animals as kind bas as." The
race up here IS almost universally "lSinG."
! The local COW is as short as her kius-
| woman Of the Kerry breed, with 4 bigger
| READ aud body, and less winsom9 face.
| i3ut Kerry goat could scarcely excel the
A pino mich COW in agility The other
day. eheltering in a dismautc! waysde
! chapel during a heavy thunder saower
| WIS joined by little shephordcss of II
| and ter small brother. Their nine cows
ard young stock gazed round about us.
| Part of their feeding ground was sheer
| cliff, above the Nogna torrent. The girl
| chdtteG, knitting. and occasionally called
'Berne sa' 10 order or Rosa" or "Spag-
| ma, when these COWS stepped upon per
| ilous ground. If a name and an inartic-
uldte cry were not enough to effect her
purpose she sent the little brother, through
the rain and hail. flying down hill to
were not Born under the sway of the
shephcrdess she said. She had only
known them for three months; vet they
| generally obeyed her mere nod! When
some of them charged at my dogs tho
gul dropped her knitting. and stood nm
wrathfully; wheraupon the charging year
linss, as well as the old COWS, paused
abashed, and eventually skunk away quite
"cowed" and abject!
Care of Sick Cows.
The cow here ranks almost before the
sick and before the chidren-because in
Alpine valleys all the family largely de-
Ponds on dairying of one sort or another
When an accident happens to a COW her
owners sit up with her through the cold
nights on the hillside. One of the pre-
cious beasts fell five days ago. The own
er aud daughter were engaged to go har-
Vestins for another peasant -proprietress
hut no, they could not leave Rosa, whose
food and drink had to be brought (everv
bit and every drop of ito TO her Inns ana
whose pains had to be alleviated by all i'm
aginable attentions But, after all. Rosa
has had to be killed. Her recorvev was
too uncertain. Her owners sister said:
1T was not possible TO watch her suffer
ms, when we were not sure of curing her
And oh, what "a beautiful creature she
VAST That is not the tone with which
cattle are spoken of elsewhere in my ex-
perienced.
A little boy, who summered here one
year. when leaving took polite farewell of
host ami hostess, peasant friends, and the
few remaining sgnori villegianti: and than
was caught kissing good-by' to Flora
Spagna, FIancia, Bruna and the rest of tho
dairy COWS of the mountain hostelry His
kisses fell on their hairy foreheads. and on
their wet rough muzzles. He was a bic.
boy, who gave himself manly airs at
times; but even he could not resist the
| ffOpnitJs of thR - and
quaintances found nothing strange in his
caresses-responding thereto, 1 have no
doubt, with lick Of nutmeg gra ter-lik
tongues
House Cows.
The cows, who live in the winter draw
ing room, never go out except under guild
| ance in summer. They owe meat ana
drink" sick nursing and friendly scratch
ings and caresses to their human belong
ings They take a mild. contemplative in
terest in the goings and comings of their
owners family; and E'illida decla res "they
understand every word of Italian COR pa
tois), that is said before themrf / believe
#, for Filllda knows so much about cows
that what she DON'T know isn't knowI-
edge" / am afraid 10 say that COWS
shrug their shoulders; but that is what
they seem to do when mutinous, and a
dstastcful CIDER reaches THEN furry ears.
? There is a wriggle of the body. a head
tossing a lifting OF one heel and a slash
ing of the hairy ball at the end Of the tail
that is fully equivalent to a
shrug. Next comes frank disobedi-
ence Then the shepherdess asserts her
, self "Muccha" stands abashed an instant
and forthwith begins again with ardor 10
cat grass. She does il ostenta tiousfy as
who should say: I'm eating. That's my
business What more do you want?'
The PrcIate's Pig.
roorbans Tho oldest net T have Lnou,n
was a pig the favOrite of an archbishop.
The preiate and pisgie took their walks
abroad in company, 10 the wonder and
disgust of his Grace's nieces. They asked
''Bish" as they irrevcrently called their
right reverend uncle, why earth do
: you take tie pig 10 waik?' There is so
much good fellowship about him, that is
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