Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . ck, and she turned her head around and looked atme as if she was human and had sinse. I was scaredand I started to escape into a near field. Well, nowthin, as I was goin over the fince I looked back andthere was no cow to be seen. Shed gone out of sightwhile I was takin three steps. The next evening I was out again, and there wasthe cow in the road, and the milk was runnin out of herbag and down the road in a regular stream to the hurried and brought me bucket and caught about twoinches in the bottom of it. Thin I carried it to the houseand ha
Highways and byways of the Pacific coast . ck, and she turned her head around and looked atme as if she was human and had sinse. I was scaredand I started to escape into a near field. Well, nowthin, as I was goin over the fince I looked back andthere was no cow to be seen. Shed gone out of sightwhile I was takin three steps. The next evening I was out again, and there wasthe cow in the road, and the milk was runnin out of herbag and down the road in a regular stream to the hurried and brought me bucket and caught about twoinches in the bottom of it. Thin I carried it to the houseand had soom bread and milk, and that milk wasdelicious, palatable, fine. It was the best I iver made another man of me. I could feel the changeat wunst. It braced me up and I was well. I had soom milk left and I thought I would let itstay in the bucket and have it in the morning, butwhen morning came and I looked in the bucket I sawnothing but wather there. At noon I looked in againand the bucket was dry. Now, what do you call that ^. At luorh tn a home yard Santa Barbara and its Historic Mission 121 It was the fairies all the same havin fun wid me. I wassick and they cured me. They knowed it was nobother to do it. The fairies had a hand too in my gettin this blockof land I own. They showed me the picture of itbefore I left Ireland, and the minute I set eyes on it Iwas certain it was what they intinded I should , wan time here, the fairies tould me I could havegreat herds of cattle or sheep or pigs. Whativer kindof animals ye want ye can have, they said; and Ichose the cattle, and no sooner did I say the word thanup coom a band of cattle out of the ground—hoondredsav thim. There they are, the fairies said, and intwinty years thim will be yours, and the ranch theyreon, if ye want thim. Well, they were on a ranch where a lady namedHale lived, and ivery cow had two calves a year, andthings wint along very prosperous. The fairies wasworkin on the lady, too, and she
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