Connecticut western news., 1900-10-04

sHE SAW LrrrLK CALF RUNNING rowARD
 HER
 and the clover field to the blue grass pasture. There, down in a hollow, next to the oat stubble field. was Old Jersey quietly feeding.
 Where is the little calf2" asked Mil lie.
 'I don't know" said her father. "We must look and find it."
 So they went into the pasture and looked into all the fence corners and into all the places where the grass grew tall, but no calf could they find.
 'Old Jersey must have hidden 1t. per haps down in the swamp" said MIL He's father. You and will just drive her back there, and perhaps she will show us where it is."
 So they drove Old Jersey beyond the pasture into the swamp. But Old ter sey only browsed among the bushes, as If to say. My little baby is safe, and am perfectly contented to feed down bere if you wish me to-"
 It was now fast growing dark, and Millie's father said Old Jersey must be
 
 "We will bring her back to the pas ture in the morning" he said, "and by that time think she will be glad to go and see her baby calf, and we can fol- low her."
 Millie was disappointed, and she felt, too, that the poor little calf must be left alone all night. She made up her mind to get up very early the next morning, so as to be ready to go with Old Jersey to the pasture. When she went to bed, she thought about the It. tie calf and cried. "The little bossy Is all alone down In the swamp" she sob bed.
 Then her mother came and told her the calf was probably fast asleep now, and they would find 1t all safe in the morning.
 The next morning Millie awoke very early, and before she could open her eyes she said, 'I want to go and find the little calfie."
 By the time she was dressed and had had some breakfast her father was the barnyard, and Millie's father open ed the gate to let Old Jersey go into the lane. Then Old Jersey walked away very fast, and they walked fast, too, and followed her back to the pasture. But instead of leading them straight to her calf she only mooed a little and then began feeding on some clover that grew down fn the hollow next to the oat stubble field.
 "Well, daughter" said Millie's fa- ther, 'T will leave you and old Jersey here while I go and look through the swamp for the little calf. She must be hidden down there somewhere. I think Old Jersey doesn't mean that we shall see her"
 But Millie's father was hardly out of sight when Old Jersey stopped feeding and began to moo. The mooing sounded different from the moos she made when she came Into the pasture. At the same moment Millie beard a sound off at the farther end of the stubble field. She looked, and what should she see but a little red and white calf running to- ward her!
 When the calf reached the fence, 1t ran along to m open place where Old Jersey stood. Old Jersey had gone to that open place to wait as soon as she saw the little calf coming.
 It was a happy time for Millie as she watched the little bossy get It's break fast of fresh milk and then lie down by Old Jerseys side to rest.
 When Millie's father came in sight, half an hour later, quite discouraged, his little daughter ran to meet him.
 "1 have seen the little calfle, papa" she cried. 'Old Jersey called her to come just as soon as you had gone She wasn't afraid to let me see her lit tie calfier'
 And then they went, an four, up the lane to the barn, the little red and white calf trotting along by Old Jer- sey's side and Old Jersey keeping a sharp eye on Millie's father.-George J. Hume in Little Folks.