Dad saw them from the paddock and cooeed, and shouted for those at the house to drive them away.

They did n't hear him.

Dad left the plough and ran up and pelted Anderson's cows with stones and glass-bottles, and pursued them with a pitch-fork till, in a mad rush to get out, half the brutes fell over the fence and made havoc with the wire.

Dad spent an hour mending it; then went to the verandah and savagely asked Mother if she had lost her ears.

Mother said she had n't.