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Show DADDY'S LM EVENING $m iFAIRYTAIllflfP MaryGrahamnonrier COW ENGAGEMENTS "Moo, moo," said Mrs. Cow, "It la not everyone who has two engagements every day." "Moo, moo," 8aid Miss Cow, "I don't suppose it is, but what do you mean by that, Mrs. Cow?" "Yes, moo, moo," said Mrs. Brown Cow, "what do you mean by thatr "What do you mean by that, moo, moo," said Mrs. Brown-and-Whlte Cow. "Tell me too," said Mrs. Hrown-Spot Cow, "moo, moo, tell me too." , .., "And I want to hear," said Mrs. Black Cow. "Moo, moo, I want to hear." "We nil want to hear," said the other cows as they sat In the pasture and looked at Mrs. Cow. "I haven't had a chance to speak," said Mrs. Cow, "und explain what I meant as yet." "Moo, moo," said Miss Cow, "thai Is :he truth. She hasn't had a chance to peak." "True, moo, moo," gaid Mrs. Brown Cow. "Very true." "That is the case," said Mrs. Brown-and-White Cow. "We haven't given her a chance to speak. We must give her a chance to speak." "We must surely give her a chance to speak, moo, moo," said Mrs. Brown-Spot-Cow. "We must," said Mrs. Black Cow, 'aioo, moo, we must." xes, give her a chance to speak, ; moo, moo," all the other cows said. '. "But Instead of talking about It," said Mrs. Cow, "really give me the chance to speak." So all the cows kept still and Sirs. Cow, chewing her cud as she talked, suid : "Some people may be Invited out once a week to dinner, or maybe they "What Do You Mean by That?" have a dinner party at home, or maybe may-be they're asked out to supper once or twice In a week or so. "Some may he Invited to one party In a week or one party In a month. "Hut twice a day we Cows have important im-portant engagements. Twice a day we must be milked and so I say It Is , very superior to be a cow and to have these two Important engagements each day. "If we wander off Into the woods beyond or way, way over yonder hill, the farmer or his son will come after us as though to say: "'You must have forgotten but It Is milking time and you must come along. ' " "Perhaps," snlil Mrs. i?lark Cow, "we might say the farmer had two engagements engage-ments each day." "That's not the same," said Mrs. Cow. "For he could, send his son or he could send a hired man he doesn't have to come himself. "Whereas we cows really have these two Important engagements each day. "Hut now I must rest. I thought all that up myself, and my poor cow brain Is weary and tired now. I think I will have a nap or u day-dream." . "She thought up something quits fine," said Mrs. Rrown Ccw. "She did, uioo, moo," said Mrs. Ulack Cow. "She did, moo, moo," said Mrs. Brown-and-White Cow. "Most certainly she did, moo, moo," said Mrs. Brown Spot Cow. "I agree that she did, moo, m'o," Raid Miss Cow. And all the other cows looked at each other, chewed slowly and raid: "Sol half-bad for a cow I" |
