It always seemed to me a tranquil beast adapted for sober locomotion on nice green grass." "And isn't it ?" said the girl with indifference in her eyes.

"Mr.
Alton is an authority on cattle ?" "Harry," said Seaforth, smiling, "is, although one might not always fancy so, a complete encyclopaedia on everything useful.

Anyway, from the sound up yonder you will presently see some of the primitive habits of the genus _bos_, and the spectacle may be the more interesting because the beast will if possible head away up that valley into fastnesses where only a prehistoric man with a tail could follow it." Alice Deringham said nothing further and was glad of the rest.

They had pulled their horses up on the slope of a hill which formed one side of a hollow out of which several valleys opened.

There were great trees about them, and it was only here and there a ray of sunlight pierced the dim green shadow, while below them a stream went frothing down a miniature canon whose banks were cumbered by fallen timber.