New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-18

sped, the devoted but unsuspecting lion after the
calves, and the Hired Man, a prey to ignorance
and stepped in most degrading darkness, after the
lion. When she reached the corner of the fence
she turned feeling that the mother play spirit had
carried her far enough in this historical impersona-
ton and that she would allow these amateur
primitive COWS to escape. 1t was fatal error.
The Hired Man was close upon her. He seized that
devoted, self-saCriiCing mother by the rope she
and calling her " Col darn crazy COW, led her
from the pasture. This just proves how necessary
is the development of the imagination in early
youth. If that Hired Man had been accustomed
to the mother play of the primitive since his
own childhood, he would now have appreciated the
beautiful spirit which made Queen Bessie immediate
herself upon the altar of Offsprings develop
ment. But in his blindness he banished Bessie to
a distant pasture
As for me- the punishment was upon also;
for while Queen Bessie's distant voice was raised
in sorrow, her calf COntded to my care, and
had only to provide sustenance for my own
little Blackspot, but for him also. Nothing was
left for me to do therefore but to eat and chew
chew and eat, more industriousy than ever, having
now two instead of one to provide for.
That Jersey had impressed minds that all
knowledge related, and that one of the most
important steps in the development of the super
calf was the knowledge of these relations that each
bit of information should flow naturally from
that which had gone before. Now, logical
sequence to the mother play of the primitive cow
the study of that which had stopped the
chase, that which kept poor Queen Bessie
away from her little calf: the fence.
The fence had of course two aspects in the devel-
opnent of the COW: the ethical and the material
In the first it might be said to typify mans
care for and dependence on the COw-bOvine civil
ization, in fact. Without the fence it would be
necessary for to take thought of physical
safety, to maintain a defensive attitude both of
body and mind quite ninical to the development
of those higher virtues peace, placidity and rumi
native contemplation, characteristic of the civil
lied IT, therefore, the fence ethical
necessity for the development of calves and
Stockings into supercOws, its construction should
not be left to the serving hands of man. This
brought to the material aspect of the fence, as
it were. This material study would train the sense
organs of touch and sight and develop ability to
coordinate eye and hoof. Think of the deXterity
of hoof, the agility of jaw, the keenness of
eve and the accuracy of judgment which would
be developed in the supercalf in building a stone
WALL
Accordingly the Spotted Hefer gave the calves
a course in wal-building, and in company with
our progeny laid low several yards of new wall
which the Hired Man had built the gate.
After a careful study of its construction through
destruction, the Spotted Heifer sent them around
the pasture gather material for little wall OF thor
own OF course | suppose 1t was partly our fault
what happened after that. We had so INSISTED
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