CHAPTER VI.
THE FULL-BLOODED COW.
We never had any one drop in about six o'clock p.m.whom we were more glad to see than Fielding, the Orange County farmer.

In the first place, he always had a good appetite, and it did not make much difference what we had to eat.

He would not nibble about the end of a piece of bread, undecided as to whether he had better take it, nor sit sipping his tea as though the doctor had ordered him to take only ten drops at a time, mixed with a little sugar and hot water.

Perpetual contact with fresh air and the fields and the mountains gave him a healthy body, while the religion that he learned in the little church down by the mill-dam kept him in healthy spirits.

Fielding keeps a great drove of cattle and has an overflowing dairy.