, "O, go on now and give us a rest." Brindle turns her
head to a fountain that is near, in which Apollinaris water is flowing,
perfumed with new mown hay, drinks, turns her head, and licks her
back, and stops and thinks, and then looking around as much as to say,
"Gentlemen, you will have to excuse me," lays down with her head on a
pillow, pulls the coverlid over her and begins to snore.

The attendant steer steers the visitor along the next apartment, which
is a large one, filled with cattle in all positions. One is lying in
a hammock, with her feet on the window, reading the Chicago _Times_
article on "Oleomargerine, or Bull Butter," at intervals stopping
the reading to curse the writer, who claims that oleomargarine is an
unlawful preparation, containing deleterious substances.

A party of four oxen are seated around a table playing seven-up for the
drinks, and as the attendant steer passes along, a speckled ox with one
horn broken, orders four pails full of Waukesha water with a dash of
oatmeal in it, "and make it hot," says the ox, as he counts up high,
low, jack and the game.

Passing the card players the visitor notices an upright piano, and asks
what that is for, and the attendant steer says they are all fond of
music, and asks if he would not like to hear some of the cattle play. He
says he would, and the steer calls out a white cow who is sketching, and
asks her to warble a few notes. The cow seats herself on her haunches on
the piano stool, after saying she has such a cold she can't sing, and,
besides, has left her notes at home in the pasture. Turning over a few
leaves with her forward hoof, she finds something familiar, and proceeds
to walk on the piano keys with her forward feet and bellow, "Meat me in
the slaughterhouse when the due bill falls," or something of that kind,
when the visitor says he has got to go up to the stock yards and attend
a reception of Colorado cattle, and he lights out.

We should think these parlor cattle cars would be a success, and that
cattle would enjoy them very much. It is said that parties desiring to
charter these cars for excursions for human beings, can be accommodated
at any time when they are not needed to transport cattle, if they will
give bonds to return them in as good order as they find them.

DUCK OR NO DINNER.

There is nothing that gives pious people more annoyance than to hear
shooting on Sunday on some adjacent marsh while they are worshipping,
and