Through Nature's vale his homely pleasures glide, Unstained by envy, discontent, and pride; The bound of all his vanity, to deck, With one bright bell, a favourite heifer's neck; 495 Well pleased upon some simple annual feast, Remembered half the year and hoped the rest, If dairy-produce, from his inner hoard, Of thrice ten summers dignify [130] the board.

An idle voice the sabbath region fills Of Deep that calls to Deep across the hills, 355 And with that voice accords the soothing sound [90] Of drowsy bells, for ever tinkling round; Faint wail of eagle melting into blue Beneath the cliffs, and pine-woods' steady sugh; [W] The solitary heifer's deepened low; 360 Or rumbling, heard remote, of falling snow.

Among the other calves was a speckled heifer, whose dam was a great crony of his own mother.

The brown heifer paused, every muscle tense, her eyes literally blazing, We sat perfectly still.

Well, we followed the trail half a mile into the swamp, when on an elevated spot, we suddenly encountered the half-devoured body of the unfortunate heifer, apparently just deserted by the captors.

[There] lay stretched The infamy of Crete, detested brood Of the feigned heifer.

A second decree was passed, that "the decemviri should perform sacrifice in the Grecian mode, and with the following victims: to Apollo, with a gilded ox, and two white goats gilded; to Latona, with a gilded heifer."

The sheep snatched up our crumbs, while pretty glossy heifers jumped around, ringing their bells roguishly, and laughing at us with great merry eyes.

But pride, which has so often come to our rescue just in time, stepped into her quivering young heart, she stood up and shook her head like an angry young heifer.

"Got a cunning little heifer used to have some manners.

The defendant swore he had never seen the lost heifer, and that the one in his barn he had raised himself.

I send somebody to represent me; my vote rests upon my property.' "Have you not read a story, of late, in the newspapers, about some excellent women in a little town in Connecticut whose pet heifers were taken by force and sold because they refused to pay the large taxes levied upon them by their townsmen, they being the largest holders of property in the town?

Valuable animal? MYSELF: (fencing): I have never put a price on her; she is a promising young heifer.

'Like to some spotless heifer,'or,'that you might have compared her to some spotless heifer,' etc.or 'Like to some sacrificial heifer of old.'

'Like to some spotless heifer,'or,'that you might have compared her to some spotless heifer,' etc.or 'Like to some sacrificial heifer of old.'

D. started like an unbroke heifer, when I interrupted him.

So he had no suspicion of the severe criticism passed upon him by the little girl who read the service so womanly, he thought, eating caraway and lozenges between times, and whose face he carried in memory back to his prairie home, associating her always with the graceful dark-brown heifer bearing so strong a resemblance to the cow which had so frightened Ethelyn on the day of his first introduction to her.

Is the sacrifice made fit? Draw her backward to the pit: Draw the barren heifer back; Barren let her be, and black.

"Got a cunning little heifer used to have some manners.

There were two steers and a gentle-faced heifer.

They seemed to understand what we had said to them, for they rode off with a rush and came back in a short time, leading a fine, fat two-year-old heifer.