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68 THE COW AND HER TORMENTOR.

calf was confined. Swayed by her love for her offspring,

she had broken out of the pen, passed through all the streets
of the suburbs without being stopped by the police, who
naturally supposed, from her quiet manner, that the drover
must be at her heels; and once in the country, had quickly
tramped the twelve miles that took her to her former home.
It is probable that she took the same road to Bushy which
she had followed when being driven from that place to
Smithfield.

In Africa, the Hottentot shepherds employ a species of
cow to guard their flocks of sheep. They keep the animals
together with all the wisdom of Scotch sheep-dogs, and will
attack with the utmost bravery any enemy trying to injure
them.

What obstacles does true love overcome! If that poor
dull cow could feel such love for her offspring as to overcome
the usual want of feeling of her kind, what must be the
feelings of a human mother towards her children! Can you,
then, ever carelessly wound yours by your misconduct ?

 

THE COW AND HER TORMENTOR.

In my younger days, I had a friend who used to catch our
tutor’s cow by the tail, and make her drag him at full speed
round and round the field. One day, when he was quietly
walking along the path to church, the cow espied him, and
making chase, very nearly caught him with her horns as he
leaped over the nearest gate.

I will tell you of another cow, which was often tormented