The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-05
DADDY,5 rFNDNG E1FARY TALE E1 3Yr1ARY GRAHAM BONNER
THE PICNIC.
BONNER
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 quite tired out. Quite tired out. I just want to chew my cud and go to sleep. But 1t was a delightful picnic, wasn't it?"
 "Yes," said Miss Holstein, known as Miss Hannah, land I believe it was given especially for us." Indeed" said another COW known as Miss Hatty.
 Yes, lots of farmers got together who owned fine cows and that Is why some of us were sold and exchanged. You see we have come to a new home. Our master sold us, but we were sold together.'
 ''That's good" said Miss Hatty. "I always get along well with you, though am not such an affectionate creature. my cud any day"
 "So would l." said Miss Hannah.
 "Did you see all the ice cream they had at the picnic?" asked Miss Hatty.
 "Yes. did, just gallons and gallons of it," said Miss Hannah.
 Good of us to help make it," said Miss Hatty.
 \ 1Is Hannah.
 "Oh yes, you did, you often help to make ice cream"
 No, don't" said Miss Hannah, "I have never made ice cream. I could not turn the handle or pack in the ice or anything like that" said Miss Hannah. i've seen the farmers boy dOiOp if furDiDU around tho Preozar aS he sat on the back steps.
 And have never, never helped him. don't see how you think could. You haven't much sense, Miss Hatty. Gould turn that crank with my tail, do you suppose?"
 Miss Hatty was grinning, a silly cows grin.
 My dear Miss Hannah, didn't say that you" helped freeze the ice cream, but you do help to make 1t. Don't you give milk and cream?"
 ''Yes," said Miss Hannah.
 "Well, then, use your thinking cap."
 'I haven't one," said Miss Hannah. "In fact I haven't a cap at all. I've never seen the need of 1t, and no one has ever given 1t to me. Sometimes I've thought I'd like a bonnet with long, long feathers could move about and keep the flies away"
 "Oh," said Miss Hatty, q am a stupid COW but you are more stupid. You are very, very stupid"
 ''I suppose am," said Miss Hannah, who didn't seem to mind in the least being thought stupid.
 "What I meant was," said Miss Hat Y y, "that you should have stopped to think, not really to put on a cap or hat, just to think"
 "Oh, see," said Miss Hannah, her big eyes looking rather sleepily at Miss Hatty.
 "Well, you admit now you have helped with ice cream, don't you?"
 "Yes, I admit it," said Miss Hannah.
 "Oh, there were so many automo- piles there today, so many rich farm CTS, so many, many settlements. And the children ran races and some of them won prizes. tell you that was an honorable sort of a picnic for COW to be at," said Miss Hatty.
 '1 didn't know there were honorable 
 "Well," said Miss Hatty, q mean 1t was a sort of picnic which was so fine that 1t was & great honor for any COW to be there."
 "Yes, yes, but then we're superior COWS I've always heard" said Miss Hannah. "Not that it makes any diff ference to me-"
 Ut doesn't make much difference to me-" said Miss Hatty, though I SUD- pose 1t Is nice. We see so much of the world. We go to county fairs and exhibitions"
 "Oh yes," said Miss Hannah, "but they are all the same. People look at us, we look at people, but the only things that are really fun are sleeping, eating, grazing, chewing our cud, and whisking the flies away with our tails"
 True" said Miss Hatty, "cows aren't particular creatures about hay ing settlements"