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Show THE COW FAMILY Mrs. Cow told some one when she was a little calf that she had never had a wliolo brown dress because her mother hadn't been able to afford one, ami she had bed to patch it up with i while. That was the reason, she said, that she was a brown cow with a few white patches. All the creatures of the barnyard lilced this story. 'It's so much belter," Mrs. Duck had said, "than to boast to lis that you could have everything under the sun. "Our clothes aren't so important anyway us our dispositions, for we call our colors our clothes." Mrs. Black and White Cow stopped chewing for a moment and looked at Mrs. Cow, for she had something special to say. "What I have to tell you won't excite ex-cite you," began Mrs. Cow. "I don't think it will at any rate, for it didn't excite me. "It just made me very happy and pleased. I do not like to become excited ex-cited any more than you do, my denr. "I enjoy chewing and taking my time over everything. I never look excited, ex-cited, do I?" Mrs. Black and White Cow said, slowly : "No, mv dear. You always look as though you were calm. But then that Is the way a cow should be. "We should never hurry. We are not meant to hurry for none of our family have ever hurried. "We've always enjoyed taking our time and eating nnd munching. Now and again we look up at people as they pass by, but we look at everything every-thing in a calm fashion. "True," said Mrs. Cow. "Once in a while I think we have grown a bit more lazy l ban usual. "Don't say that," said Mrs. Black and White Cow. "Laziness is the very joy of my cow life. "Never to move quickly, never to eat quickly, never to grow excited those are the joys of my cow life." "And mine, too," agreed Mrs. Cow. "I really meant that I sometimes think people do not appreciate cows much or enough. "They are so used to seeing us "That Is What I Have to Tell You." move so slowly that they think we aren't worth much. "They rather like the creatures who hurry and bustle, even if they never get anywhere." "Funny," said Mrs. Black and White Cow, chewing slowly all the time, and taking time about it, too, "that they can admire hurrying." "They should think that we do all the work that is expected of us and that we do it well," continued Mrs. Cow. "Don't you think that is enough?" asked Mrs. Black and White Cow. "It should be enough," said Mrs. Cow. "If ever they stopped hurrying themselves and had a nice long time thinking about cows they would come to the conclusion that we were very useful and that we were a great addition addi-tion to the world. "Yes, a great addition. But I do think now they are beginning to appreciate ap-preciate us a little more. "That is what I have to tell you. "They are beginning to think farming farm-ing is one of the finest things to do. and that cows nnd chickens, ducks and geese, should be studied. "You see I saw a friend of the farmer the other day. This makes me extremely happy. "The farmer was talking about his fine animals, and he said, pointing to me : "'Don't you think that's a fine cow over there?' and the friend said: " 'Now let me look up about cows in my book and see if I have that kind.' "Well, I saw his hook. It was on farming, and on the inside somewhere some-where was a picture of a brown cow with white spots looking just as I look. "So I felt excited to think that a book was written on all kinds of cows and that was a picture of a cow that looked as I looked. "At least I wasn't exactly excited, but I was very much pleased." And the creatures in the barnyard were pleased, too, at this high honor. |