which they may have caught and tamed some
time before. And as the people have been doing this for many, many
years, they always have some tame buffaloes. So this is the way the
men treat the wild buffaloes:

_Wild Buffaloes Tamed Quickly by Kindness_

They put the wild buffaloes and the tame ones together in a pen, or
corral. Inside the corral there is a pond. In the deep part of the
pond there is plenty of good water to drink; and in the shallow part
of the pond there is plenty of mud in which the buffaloes may roll
about and wallow.

The men keep the buffaloes there together for many days, the wild ones
and the tame ones. Every day the men throw into the corral plenty of
fresh grass, which the buffaloes can eat all day.

Now, what more could the wild buffaloes want? They could not be
treated any better! They have plenty to eat, plenty to drink, and
plenty of mud in which to wallow. The tame buffaloes soon make friends
with them, and talk to them in their own language.

"You will not be any better off in the jungle," the tame ones say to
the wild ones. "Here you do not have to walk about all day to get
enough to eat, and then walk a good way to find water to drink, or a
place in which to wallow. And, also, we have no fear of tigers here.
What more do you want?"

So in a few weeks the wild ones become quite tame. Still, even after
that, the old and the new ones are always kept together, and soon they
become like one herd.

Afterwards, when the farmers use them for plowing, they always hitch
to the plow one buffalo that has been tame for a long time, and one
that is newly-tamed. Then it becomes easy for the new one to learn the
work by just doing as his friend does.

The farmer uses the buffaloes for plowing for only a few hours, and he
gives them plenty of time for wallowing and enjoying themselves. So,
even if they have to do a little work, the new buffaloes soon see that
they are really much better off living in the village than running
wild in the jungle.

After the plowing season is over, the buffaloes have no work at all.
They can wallow all day, if they want to.

When all the new buffaloes are quite tame, they are not kept in the
corral any more, as they would never think of running away now. They
are allowed to lie about and sleep in a little plot of ground
somewhere in the village. By daytime they are taken out into the
fields outside the village, and allowed to graze as they please; and
as there