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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Nell, there's one thing I know, and it's that my scolding and warning and beseeching will do exactly as much good as an old cow mooing with her neck stretched over a stone wall. You know what I think.
'Oh! said the Courtiers, 'now we have found her! What a wonderful power for such a small beast to have! I am sure we have heard her before! 'No; that is a cow mooing! said the little kitchenmaid. 'We are still a long way off! Then the frogs began to croak in the marsh. 'Splendid! said the Chinese chaplain. 'Now we hear her; it sounds like a little church-bell!
Worse than lanudos! I know where the curate is going to stay to-night! Johnnie will take good care of her, don't worry, my lad! Moo-oo! Moo-oo!" And this mooing of cattle was supposed to evoke the image of well-horned oxen in the minds of those brave sailors who were thus being cheered on their way out into peril.
In them she seemed to be eternally climbing steep stairs into a chamber of horrors tenanted by one starving boy; or she was watching Madam choke to death over a lump of hot scorched porridge; or she was being tossed on the horns of Squire Pettijohn's black bull, the terror of all young, and some old, Marsdenites, and from this last dream she awoke to find the kitchen quite dark, and Whitey mooing outside the window.
Not being able to see things makes it seem farther, I guess." The encouraging sound of a cow mooing reached them the next minute. "That must be the one we heard yesterday," said Han. "I suppose there's just one on the island and it's set to go off at the same time every day." "If there's a cow over there," said Perry, staring into the fog, "maybe there's a farmhouse. Let's have a look."
Presently another, and then a slow line of them. They crossed the higher ridge to huddle about a sink that might have made them remember the dry drinking holes of their arid home plains. Tired, gaunt cattle mooing lonesomely, when the man came about them to dig with his bloody fingers in the sand.
For a long time they lay side by side, sleepless, and listening. Past the windfall went the padded feet of a fisher-cat, and they caught the scent of it; to them came the far cry of a loon, the yapping of a restless fox, and the MOOING of a cow moose feeding in the edge of a lake on the farther side of the plain.
What they wolves is waiting for is for the young calves little, helpless sort of things that are always being left behind as the great drove goes feeding on over the plains; and if you watch a drove, you'll every now and then find a calf lying down, and its mother trying to coax it to get up and follow the others, while the old cow keeps mooing and making no end of a noise, and cocking up her tail, and making little sets of charges at the wolves to drive them back whenever they get too near.
Samuel listened to the mooing of the breakers, to the wind rattling at the casements, and wondered if Blossy had missed him. About this time, she must be sitting in her chintz-covered rocker, combing out the ringlets of her golden-white hair in the cheery firelight. Now, that would be a sight worth seeing! Abe opened his mouth and began to snore.
In the distance a deep sound that had been audible for some moments identified itself by a plaintive mooing like that of a gigantic cow and by the pearly spot of a headlight apparent half a mile away. It was a steam-driven train this time, rumbling and groaning, and as it tumbled by with a monstrous complaint it sent a shower of sparks and cinders over the platform. "Not one jot!"
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