IN SOME COUNTRIES, to please the epicurean taste of vitiated appetites, it is the custom to kill the calf for food almost immediately after birth, and any accident that forestalls that event, is considered to enhance its value.

In the natural course of things, a cow would be feeding her calf for half a year, but we take it away from her, and raise it as well as she could and get an extra quantity of milk from her in addition.

And after when Samuel was weaned, and was an infant, the mother took him, and three calves and three measures of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of our Lord in Shilo and sacrificed that calf and offered the child to Eli, and told to Eli that she was the woman that prayed our Lord for that child.

A neighbor had lost a calf, a white-faced calf with a broken horn.

It was not merely that they were worshipping idolsgolden calves at Dan, and Bethel, and Samaria, at the same time that they worshipped the true God.

" In the night he took away the calf.

When he approached to them he saw the calf and the instruments of mirth, and he was so wroth that he threw down the tables and brake them at the foot of the hill, and ran and caught down the calf that they had made, and burnt and smote it all to powder, which he cast into water and gave it to drink to the children of Israel.

One man said he had seen the defendant driving a white-faced calf up the mountain one night just after the stolen calf had been missed from the pasture.

The old man brings the calves to suck, and keeps an eye on me.

The first thing the poor cow did was to lick her calf, but it was quite dead.

In families where the wife is the eldest child of her parents, it has been observed that they always sell the first calves, being convinced, that, if kept, they would not thrive.

I should like to show you the short-horns there, sir!all my Lord Ducie's and Sir Edward Knightley's stock; bought a bull-calf of him the other day myself for a cool hundred, old fool that I am.

They had worked hard all day, driving cattle into the home-pasture for the spring rodeo, and on the morrow they would have to work harder still, cutting out the steers and branding the calves.

One day a cow dropped a calf in the jungle without the Goala knowing, and at evening the cow came running to join the others, without the calf.

I could eat the fatted calf.

Look at Abraham, though so great a man, going to the herd himself and fetching a calf from thence and serving it up with his own hands, for the entertainment of his guests.

She stood beside Miss Laura for a long time, watching the calves, and laughing a great deal at their awkward gambols.

A French newspaper, however,the "Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences,"gave a trustworthy but extraordinary account of a cow which produced nine calves in all, at three successive births, in three successive years.

The moment that Miriam perceived that the man who came in was not her brother, but the brother of some one else, her face had crimsoned, she had pushed away the unfortunate calf, and, springing to her feet, had darted into the shadows of an adjoining stall.

There is neither more nor less; it is all God; all, all are but 'Deus infinite modificatus':in brief, both systems are not Spinosism, for no other reason than that the logic and logical consequency of 10 Fullers + 10 X 10 Dr. Priestleys, piled on each other, would not reach the calf of Spinoza's leg.

We have told the reader that we reared the calf of the Strawberry cow, and it cost us hardly anything to do so, for it was fed in the winter with the roots we had to spare.

In a corner of the lower floor of the barn they found the calf, lying upon a bed of hay, and covered by a large piece of mosquito netting, which Miriam had fastened above and around him.

Krishna then tears its beak in two, rounds up the calves and taking the cowherd boys with him, returns home.

You will no longer be afraid then of showing your calves.

Thinking it good to harmonise with that ancient wisdom which recommends people to carry the calf before beginning with the cow, the new band of Congregationalists under notice, commenced operations on the site named by erecting a large school room in which for about a year they worshipped.