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The rugged grandeur of nature presented to him only its obstacles; its beauties did not move him any more than they would have affected a cow. The Duke did not seem to hear him. He was stretching his gaze into the dim south up the river, where leaden hills rolled billow upon billow, engarnitured with their sad gray sage.
Faith, I'd be after backing you to sleep standing, like Father O'Rafferty's old dun cow!"
On his swift and wise little ponies he tore across the sod in pursuit of swift steers, or came rattling down a hillside, hot at the heels of a wild-eyed cow and calf, followed by a cataract of pebbles.
"Here come Flossie and Freddie now!" exclaimed Nan, as she glanced at her older brother, who was taking a firm hold of the rope for his big swing. The two smaller twins, at this moment, came into the barn through the door that led to the cow stable. "Where have you been?" asked Nan, as she watched Bert get ready for his swing. "Oh, we had fun," said Flossie.
When a horse or a cow, or a drove of them, wandered into the confines of the Place, it was simple and joyous to head them off, turn them, set them into a gallop and send them on their journey at top speed. It took little skill and less trouble to do this. Besides, it was gorgeous sport. But pigs !
"Well, Denis, and when's the wedding to be?" "Oh then, to-morrow evening, if yer riverence plazes." "What! so soon, Denis? Take care; perhaps after all Betsy Cane's cow may calve; see; would you be too much in a hurry after the pigs?" "Sorrow to the tongue of me then that I tould yer riverence a word about it!" "But what are you in such a hurry about?
"Yes, sir!" "Why do you stand there like a cow?" asked Swithin; "can't you see I'm very bad?" "Yes, sir!" The valet's face twitched as though it masked the dance of obscure emotions. "I shall feel better after dinner. What time is it?" "Five o'clock." "I thought it was more. The afternoons are very long." "Yes, sir!" Swithin sighed, as though he had expected the consolation of denial.
That crowd's as law-abiding as a cow, and if it weren't, it's on our side." "How do you know?" asked the professor, staring. "You blind bat," cried Bull, "don't you see who is leading them?" They peered again, and then the Colonel, with a catch in his voice, cried out "Why, it's Renard!"
Thus if you ask an ordinary person what kinds of animals there are, he will probably say, beasts, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. Ask him to define a beast from a reptile, and he cannot do it; but he says, things like a cow or a horse are beasts, and things like a frog or a lizard are reptiles. You see he does class by type, and not by definition.
They presented us with a cow they had stolen on the road, and begged us not to forget to mention to their master that they had come all the distance from Bogos to pay their respects to his guests.
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