The scorching hardly penetrates below the outer tough skin--only enough to kill the roots of the hair--besides which it must be remembered that cattle are not so sensitive as the higher nervous organisms.

A calf usually bellows when the iron bites, but as soon as released he almost invariably goes to feeding or to looking idly about.

Indeed, I have never seen one even take the trouble to lick his wounds, which is certainly not true in the case of the injuries they inflict on each other in fighting.

Besides which, it happens but once in a lifetime, and is over in ten seconds; a comfort denied to those of us who have our teeth filled.
In the meantime two other calves had been roped by the two other men.
One of the little animals was but a few months old, so the rider did not bother with its hind legs, but tossed his loop over its neck.
Naturally, when things tightened up, Mr.Calf entered his objections, which took the form of most vigorous bawlings, and the most comical bucking, pitching, cavorting, and bounding in the air.

Mr.Frost's bull-calf alone in pictorial history shows the attitudes.