phrey, 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. I shall pass the end
of the rope outside, for you to haul up when I am ready, and then we
shall have her fast, till we can secure her properly. When I call out
`ready,' do you open the gate and let her in. You can do that and jump
into the cart afterwards, for fear she may run at you; but I don't think
that she will, for it's the calf she wants, and not either of you."

As soon as Humphrey was ready with the rope he gave the word, and the
gate was opened; the cow ran in immediately, and hearing her calf bleat,
went into the cow-house, the door of which was shut upon her. A minute
afterwards Humphrey cried out to them to haul upon the rope, which they
did.

"That will do," said Humphrey from the inside; "now make the rope fast,
and then you may come in."

They went in, and found the heifer drawn close to the side of the
cow-house by the rope which was round her horns, and unable to move her
head.

"Well, Humphrey, that's very clever; but now what's to be done?"

"First I'll saw off the tips of her horns, and then if she does run at
us, she won't hurt us much. Wait till I go for the saw."

As soon as the ends of her horns were sawed off, Humphrey took another
piece of rope, which he fastened securely round her horns, and then made
the other end fast to the side of the building, so that the animal could