| Show BREAKING AKING BAD NEWS GENTLY matter of relative values As understood in holstein in the he province of holstein says a traveler who spends a good deal of 0 his time abroad where of course nothing is more important than the breeding of superior cattle the country people are ara not only very thrifty but exceedingly 1 cee fond of their cows as may be gathered from a character charac characteristic tei story current there it appears that one farmer was walking sadly down the road one day when the village pastor met him why so downcast fr friend lend asked the pastor 1 I have a sad errand pastor replied the farmer farmer henriks cow Is dead in my pasture and I 1 am on my way to tell him A hardtack hard bard task indeed you may well say so pastor but I 1 shall ishall break it to him gently aud and how will you do that oh I 1 shall toll tell him first that it is his father who ho is dead and then having opened the way for sadder news still sti ll 11 I 1 shall tell him that it is not his father but the cow harpers Ilar pers weekly |
