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"Business is rushing" at the Gray Homestead these days, and everything going finely. The chickens and ducklings are all coming along well about four hundred of them and we've had three beautiful new heifer calves this week. Peter is beside himself with joy, for they're all Holsteins.
Edward cocked his gun and advanced cautiously, while Pablo remained where he was, holding Smoker. As soon as he was near enough to hit the head of the animal, Edward leveled and fired, and Pablo let Smoker loose, who bounded forward over the hillock. They followed the dog and found him about to seize a calf which stood by a heifer that Edward had shot.
It does not always happen that the heifer is worthless for breeding, but the probability is so great that you had better have her killed and be done with it. What Is a "Grade"? Does the term "grade" mean an animal whose sire is a thoroughbred and whose dam is a scrub, or just one who is selected from others because of her good points or those of her mother?
"His carcass is too old and tough to be of any good," said the guide, "but I'll take off his hide: the heifer will give us meat enough." While he was butchering, Morris returned to the camp and sent out Tom with the wagon to bring in the beef and venison.
If a bull which is wooing a heifer is driven away with the blows of the horns by a stronger bull, it goes in search of another mistress in another field, and lives free. A cock, beaten by a cock, consoles itself in another poultry-house. It is not so with us.
Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed." The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice
So he had no suspicion of the severe criticism passed upon him by the little girl who read the service so womanly, he thought, eating caraway and lozenges between times, and whose face he carried in memory back to his prairie home, associating her always with the graceful dark-brown heifer bearing so strong a resemblance to the cow which had so frightened Ethelyn on the day of his first introduction to her.
But the holy heifer set apart for the goddess, and at that time grazing with the other herds of the Cyzicenians on the other side of the strait, left the herd and swam over to the city alone, and offered herself for sacrifice.
I could not make out what it was, for the wind-was rustling the corn-shocks, but I arose and feigned to listen. "It's Tim," said I. "He's calling to you, Josiah. It's something about your red heifer." "Red heifer I haven't no red heifer," returned the old man. "Did I say heifer? I should have said hog excuse me," said I, blandly. "But I have killed all my hogs," Josiah replied, undisturbed.
At first it didn't look like I could ever do it. I'd forget to let the rope loose from my left hand, or I wouldn't make the loop line out flat around my head, or she'd switch off to one side, or something. But at last I'd get over the horns every time. Then I learned to do it running past the post; and after that I'd go down around the corral and practise on some quiet old heifer, and so on.
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