She exhausted thanks.

But still, when he was gone, the cow appeared no better.

She grew desperate.
'By then the news of her anxiety about the cow had spread through all the village, and every able body came to help her or look on.

They cut the udder and the ears, and then the legs, and gave them to her, and she thanked them all with tears of gratitude.

At last there was no cow at all to worry over.