Show ia dd 5 I 1 fial fi al N T 41 t jbf W dw Moo op oaid ars mrs cow tha W way by I 1 i moo 90 pao iii noo 0 o rai said alre brow na and white cow bat ido 00 you mean by tat 17 1 I was wa thinking AblAing 11 began cow 1 I do hopeau chopo it tarp yov you haild mrs bm brawn cow no said mrs oo 00 cow v it ure tire ine at till all if it had haa tired too I 1 would have stopped thinking sensible ii said bold mrs brown and i white cow but pray continue cont laue 1 I witt blat think ilig continued mrs cow ot of the time last spring when some children passed us one morning they were eVide evidently nUy having a holiday but they said eald just think it la Is only 10 in the morning and chogo cows cowa are lying down or bitting titting down and bovent ho vent a thing to do dd they any lessons to study an and d they any doming they any chores to do 60 they can enjoy scratching their china under the fence or resting by the brook or choosing some lovely shade tree under which to lie ile and au all ut at 10 in the morning still said another child tm rm glad im not a cow they dont have such bounding joy as aa we do and they dont feel nil all excited find and happy over their birthdays or over their school games yes continued mrs airs cow that was the way they were talking first they envied us because they take off nil fill the time we could in which to do nothing then they were glad they cows as they fliey liked to have excite ments which we miss such as birthdays and so BO forth but I 1 thought to myself alint they talk about us and about our laziness maybe we are lazy but we give milk twice a lay day and we make them i aa they any lessons to study feel strong and well so they can enjoy their parties and their birthdays and their games besides if we had birth birthdays dayt they be able to have so many presents or such a fine cake us as some of the family money would have to be used for our birthday cakes suppose I 1 should run up the street and do an errand in place of lillian when she wanted to play would it be of any use not a bit of it if I 1 hurried ul ui the street people would start after me and if I 1 did get as far farb as the store and then get inside they wait sit on me or know what I 1 wanted so why we sit still when we cant be of any use doing the things others can do doa we cant study for examinations as we dont go to school and it if we did go to school the teacher would have a dreadful tine 1 I looked in the schoolhouse windows down the road once and I 1 knew I 1 could never lit bit in one of those silly little desks 1 I put up one leg 1 I any arms and say any please teacher I 1 know the answer to that question 11 1 so I 1 sit here as do all of us and we rest and we eat and we give people milk we do our work well but when were not working or when we anything to do we dont pretend to be busy when we know were not I 1 71 alyc 10 sentiments said mrs brown and abd layte wyte cow WU WO said mrs mm cow spring will soon be here egeln and people mple will see us lying down in the morning and will probably say how lazy we are but let it not upset us 11 oh no 13 moo said the other cowl cove we wont let it upset ua we will continue to do our own cow way said mrs mra bow ow our 0 own pow cow way 1 repented mra mr drown brown and whito cow our own cow way mud aid the other C |