and Mabel Brittan is the taller of the two girls on the bridge. I will
tell you why the cow is called Mabel's cow.

Her family live in a wild but beautiful part of New Hampshire, where it
is very cold in winter, and pretty warm in summer. There are only two
small houses within a mile of her father's. He keeps cows, and makes
nice butter from the cream.

Not long ago he bought a cow at a great bargain, as he thought; for she
was a fine-looking young cow, and the price he paid for her was only
twenty-five dollars.

But, before he had got through the first milking of her, he began to
think she was dear at any price. She would kick over the pail, make
vicious plunges, and try to hook him. Indeed, he grew afraid of her, she
was so violent.

He took down a heavy whip, and was about to strike her in great anger,
when his little daughter Mabel caught his arm, and said, "She will never
be good for any thing if you strike her. Let me try to manage her."

And, before Mr. Brittan could prevent her, Mabel had her arm round the
cow's neck, and was calling her all the sweet pet names she could think
of.

"All that is very well," said her father; "but just you try to milk her:
that's all. No, you sha'n't venture. It would be as much as your life is
worth."

"I am very sure she will let me milk her," said Mabel. "Do not forbid my
trying. She looks at me out of her big eyes as if she thought me her
friend."

So Mabel took the tin pail, and sat down on the little low
milking-stool; and soon, to her father's astonishment, she finished
milking, the cow having stood all the while as quiet as a lamb.

It was found that the cow had been badly treated by the man who had
owned her, and who had been in the habit of milking her. Being a
high-spirited beast, she then gave him so much trouble, that he was soon
glad to be rid of her.

She would now let no one touch her but Mabel: so Mr. Brittan finally
said that the cow should be Mabel's cow, and that all the butter which
the cow yielded should be hers. But Mabel is a generous girl; and so she
shares the money she earns. Her mother, her sister Emily, and her
brothers Oliver and Frank, all get a part of it.

Mabel has given the cow a name; and the cow will come to her when she
calls her by name. The name is a very pretty one for a cow, I think. It
is Dido.

EMILY CARTER.

HARRY AND THE BIG "POP-CORNER."

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