Let an artist draw a few lines or figures on the back of a
letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger, is put in a
portfolio, or framed and glazed, and, in proportion to the beauty of
the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries." And there are beauties of
heart, mind and character, that do not meet the eye, but are none the
less powerful in "making to endure."
THE OLD MAN AND THE NERVOUS COW.
BY R.E.
"There was an old man who said 'How
Shall I 'scape from this horrible cow?
I will sit on the stile,
And continue to smile,
Which may soften the heart of the cow.'"
The old man was walking thoughtfully through the field, with his hands
behind him, when the nervous cow saw him. She wasn't ordinarily a
bad-natured cow, but she was mad just then. An aggravating fly had been
biting her half the morning, and, just as she was drinking at the
brook, a frog had jumped up with a cry and bitten her nose. These
things had completely unsettled her nerves.
She was ready to run at anything, and the old man being the only living
thing in sight, she plunged toward him.
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