| A VERY NEW COW. |
| CLIMBING PLANTS. |
| PLAYING CIRCUS. |
| CHILDREN'S CHURCH. |
| BITS OF ADVICE. |
| THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB. |
| THE STEAMBOAT.—ROBERT FULTON. |
| THE MAGIC SACK. |
| "THEIR GIRL." |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| vol. iii.—no. 154. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday October 10, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
A VERY NEW COW.
BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
"Father," exclaimed Katy Chittenden, the moment the buggy stopped infront of the gate, "Bun Gates and Rube Hollenhouser were here thismorning just after you went away, and they said all our cows were in Mr.Gates's pasture lot."
Deacon Chittenden and his wife and his son William were all in thebuggy, and the seat did not look uncomfortably full either. All three ofthem answered Katy in the same breath, with,
"How did they get in?"
"Oh, I don't know. They didn't say. Rube didn't say anything. It wasBun. He wanted me to tell you."
"It's all that new cow's doings," groaned her father, and the newsseemed to make him slow in getting out of the buggy.
"Bun Gates and Rube Hollenhouser are the roughest pair of fellows,"began William, but his father checked him.
"They drive my cows for me half the time, William. They drove 'em up tothe lot this morning. I'd never have trusted you with that new cow."
It was a serious matter, and it had been on Katy Chittenden's mind allthe morning. She had formed an extraordinary idea concerning the "newcow" for which her father had paid so much. So costly a creature, withsuch horns, and so dreadfully b