. Wild animals I have known : and 200 drawings . ilking-time even more annoying than the mosquitoes. Fred, the brother who did the milking, wasof an inventive as well as an impatient turn ofmind, and he devised a simple plan to stop theswitching. He fastened a brick to the cowstail, then set blithely about his work assured ofunusual comfort while the rest of us looked onin doubt. Suddenly through the mist of mosquitoescame a dull whack and an outburst of lan-guage. The cow went on placidly chewing tillFred got on his feet and furiously attacked herwith the milking-stool. It was bad enough tobe
. Wild animals I have known : and 200 drawings . ilking-time even more annoying than the mosquitoes. Fred, the brother who did the milking, wasof an inventive as well as an impatient turn ofmind, and he devised a simple plan to stop theswitching. He fastened a brick to the cowstail, then set blithely about his work assured ofunusual comfort while the rest of us looked onin doubt. Suddenly through the mist of mosquitoescame a dull whack and an outburst of lan-guage. The cow went on placidly chewing tillFred got on his feet and furiously attacked herwith the milking-stool. It was bad enough tobe whacked on the ear with a brick by a stupidold cow, but the uproarious enjoyment and ridi-cule of the bystanders made it unendurable. Bingo, hearing the uproar, and divining thathe was needed, rushed in and attacked Dunneon the other side. Before the affair quieteddown the milk was spilt, the pail and stoolwere broken, and the cow and the dog severelybeaten. Poor Bingo could not understand it at had long ago learned to despise that cow,. • »^»., ».. Bingo and now in utter disgust he decided to for-sake even her stable door, and from that timehe attached himself exclusively to the horsesand their stable. The cattle were mine, the horses were mybrothers, and in transferring his allegiance fromthe cow-stable to the horse-stable Bingo seemedto give me up too, and anything like dailycompanionship ceased, and, yet, whenever anyemergency arose Bingo turned to me and I tohim, and both seemed to feel that the bond be-tween man and dog is one that lasts as long aslife. The only other occasion on which Bingoacted as cowherd was in the autumn of thesame year at the annual Carberry Fair. Amongthe dazzling inducements to enter ones stockthere was, in addition to a prospect of glory, acash prize of two dollars, for the best col-lie in training. Misled by a false friend, I entered Bingo,and early on the day fixed, the cow was drivento the prairie just outside of the village. Whent
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