Where do you get your milk and butter ?" "We buy them." "From Stovey, I suppose." "Yes; from Mr.Stovey.It goes against the rent." "And it ought to go against the grain too,--living in the country and paying for milk! I'll tell you what I'll do.

I'll give you a cow.
It shall be a little present from me to you." He said nothing of the more important present which this would entail upon him in the matter of the grass for the cow; but she understood the nature of the arrangement, and was anxious to prevent it.
"Oh, Mr.Belton, I think we'd better not attempt that," she said.
"But we will attempt it.

I've pledged myself to do nothing to oppose your father; but I've made no such promise as to you.

We'll have a cow before I'm many days older.

What a pretty place this is! I do like these rocks so much, and it is such a comfort to be off the flat." "It is pretty." "Very pretty.