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Leading the cow, and aided by "Tex" McGonnigle, who boasted that he had a heart as big as the country he lived in and illing to prove it by helping hiress as far as the gate in the last wire fence, where "Tex" had to leave hi over the rope with a knot in the end hich he had belaboured the horses he had driven ahead of hiht to make it by sundown"

"I think I'll lead 'eot to drive 'eht not know everything, Wallie tried it after his helper had galloped in another direction

"The best pulling team in the state!" the auctioneer had declared, and truthfully Wallie had a notion they could haveif they had laid back on it as they did their halters when he tried to lead theether and drive them as Tex had done, but with even less success They ement or the experienced hand which laid on the rope end, but the chief difficulty seemed to be that they were of different minds as to the direction which they should take, and since the coas of still another, Wallie was confronted with a difficult situation

Dragging the mild-eyed Jersey, which had developed an incredible obstinacy with the cessation of Tex's Comanche yells behind her, Wallie applied the rope he had inherited, with the best iive of the performance, but futilely

The cow and the horses pulling in opposite directions went around and around in a circle until the trampled earth looked as if it had been the site of a cider-press or a circus

After they hada step Wallie lost patience

"Oh, sugar!" he cried "This is certainly very, very annoying!"

The coas as much an obstacle to the continuance of their journey as the horses, since, bawling at intervals, she planted her feet and allowed her neck to be stretched until Wallie was fearful that it would separate, leaving only her gory head in the halter

With this unpleasant possibility confronting hi too much strain upon it with the result that the cow learned that if she bawled loud enough and laid back hard enough, he would ease up on the rope by which he was dragging her