The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-08

and he set off over the mountain, leaving me to do the best I could with my two little tawny demons, which were ap- parently quite prepared to starve to death rather than accept the hospi- tality of man. A big Holstein COW had arrived on purpose to insure a plentiful supply of milk, and several times dur ing the morning went out with bot | tie of it to invite the calves to drink. Each time the bottle was kicked out of my hand, and the last time it was kicked into a thousand little bits. At i three o'clock in the afternoon, when they had been at least thirty hours without food, I went to my editor friend, and told him there was work ahead for us. We went to the barn and with the aid of the deer crate which the calves had come in, we made narrow stall in one corner of the pen. Then, armed the editor with & quart bottle of milk, capped with a large nipple like those used on calf feeders, and then I took off my coat. The two calves were tearing round the pen, doing their best to jump the five foot wall. and I waited until one of them came close to the stall we had I made. As he came to the nearest point. I made jump for him, and be- i fore he quite realized what the matter was I forced him back into the stal, 1 pinned him to the side of it with my 1 hip against his body, and with one arm around his girth and the other about his neck. He was in such posi- tion tEat he could not go back or to either side, and the only thing he could do was to plunge forward, and to this exercise he devoted all his energy. For about ten minutes Git seemed about an hour) the air was full of hair and hoofs and good old hay, as the vigorous beast sprang forward again and again, belowing all the time as though he was being murdered, as perhaps he thought he was. All this time the editor was dutifully holding the milll-bottle as near to the calf s mouth as he could get and delivering 1 honeyed phrases which sounded
 strangely funny when contrasti:d with the angry remarks of the calf. At last the struggling creature, hot and tired from the violence. of his exertions, be-
 came quiet for moment, and the nip pie. dripping with milk was pushed be- tween his frothing lips. Quick as a fash he seized the offending rubber in
 his teeth, and the next instant he was sucking furiously, as though to spite us. We let him have a pint, then set him free, and repeated the experiment with the other calf, with precisely the same result.
 At seven o'clock there was another desperate fight with each calf but each was conquered at last, and drank his milk with more energy than good grace
 At ten that night. when entered the pen with the milk-bottle, the calves were standing quiet in corner, and
 when held out the nipple to one of
 them he took it gently in his mouth, and gently sucked the bottle dry. The other calf also took his milk without being held. and the problem of getting them to take food was solved, Wheth-
 CT this milk, which was doubtless quite different from buffalo milk, would agree
 with the youngsters, was another ques- tion to which we must wait for
 Next day fed the calves very fre-
 quently, giving them half a pint of
 warm milk at a time. They were al-
 ways ready for t. and often wanted
 more. But they were getting little ex-
 ercise, and I thought it better to go
 slowly, especially as we did not know
 Tow the cows milk would affect them
 I also gave them some green sods, the
 grass on which they nibbled little,
 They also nibbled, at bunch. some
 hay which I put in for them. They no
 longer dashed about the pen when. I
 went inside, they began to recognize me
 as the chief of the commissary de-
 partment, and treated me with due re-
 spect. When I brought their milk,
 they allowed me to pat them and rub
 their heads, but when they had finish