Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-18

sped, the devoted but -unsuspecting lion after the
calves, and the Hired Man, 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 now allow these amateur
primitive to escape. 1t fatal error
The Hired Man was close upon heri He seized that
devoted, self-sacrifcing mother by the rope she
wore 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
childhood, he would now have appreciated the
beautiful spirit which made Queen Bessie immediate
herself upon the altar of oHsprings develop
ment. But in his blindness he banished Bessie to
distant pasture.
AS for me, the punishment upon also;
for while Queen Bessie's distant voice was raised
in sorrow, her calf confded to my care, and |
had not only to provide sustenanCe for my
little Blackspot, but for him also. Nothing
left for 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 our minds that all
knowledge related, and that of the most
important steps in the development of the super
calf the knowledge of these relations; that each
bit of information should flow naturally from
that which had gone before. Now, as logical
sequence to the mother play of the primitive COW,
came 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 the cow-bovine civil
izaton, in fact Without the fence it would be
necessary for to take thought of physical
safety, to maintain defensive attitude both of
body and mind quite inimical to the development
of those higher virtues, peace, placldlty and rumi
native contemplation, characteristic of the civil
lied COW. If, 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 This
brought to the material aspect of the fence,
it were. This material study would train the
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
eye and the accuracy of judgment which would
be developed in the supercah in building stone
wall!
Accordingly, the Spotted Heifer gave the calves
a course in wall-building, and in company with
our progeny laid low several yards of wall
which the Hired Man had built the gate.
After a careful study of it's construction through
destruction, the Spotted Heifer sent them around
the pasture to gather material for little wall of their
own. Of course / suppose it partly our fault
what happened after that. We had insisted
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