I tried to work toward it,
easy like. When I got there the squirrel was gone but the
mulberry tree and its ripening berries were right there where the
sound came from. . . Where there is plenty of grass, cows never
get hungry. They eat about all the time just to keep from getting
hungry. If you see cows lying around in the shade, you know that
all is well.
But you have to keep tab on your livestock wherever they may be.
Inside the highway gate, but some distance away to the east, was
an open tool shed. . . Day before yesterday, as I drove in the
pasture and passed reasonably close to this tool shed, I saw a
young calf in the shed on top of the hay. He'd weigh 100 to 125
pounds. I didn't stop. I thought he'd work his way out the same
way he worked in. That evening as I went by, I forgot about any
calf. Next morning as I went by, I was thinking about other
things, so I didn't look in for the calf. About mid-afternoon,
when I was working within hearing distance of the tool shed, I
heard a cow bawling. It was the bawl of a cow that had lost her
calf. When I came out, I stopped near the shed, walked over and
looked in. There was the calf on the hay, and silent as your
Uncle Frankfurter when he broke the stock of my shotgun.
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