I have an
idea that he is hit hard."
The cart drove on, followed by the heifer, but no more of the wild
herd made their appearance, and they very soon gained the cottage.
"Now, then, what shall we do?" said Jacob. "Come, Humphrey, you have
had all the ordering of this, and have done it well."
"Well, Jacob, we must now drive the cart into the yard, and shut the
gate upon the cow, till I am ready."
"That's easy done, by setting Smoker at her," replied Jacob; "but,
mercy on us, there's Alice and Edith running out!--the heifer may kill
them. Go back, Alice, run quite into the cottage, and shut the door
till we come."
Alice and Edith hearing this, and Edward also crying out to them, made
a hasty retreat to the cottage. Humphrey then backed the cart against
the paling of the yard, so as to enable Edward to get on the other
side of it, ready to open the gate. Smoker was set at the heifer, and,
as before, soon engaged her attention; so that the gate was opened and
the cart drove in, and the gate closed again, before the heifer could
follow.
"Well, Humphrey, what next?"
"Why, now lift the calf out, and put it into the cow-house. I will go
into the cow-house with a rope and a slip-knot at the end of it, get
upon the beam above, and drop it over her horns as she's busy with the
calf, which she will be as soon as you let her in.
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