How Cowslip Saved Him.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 29

How Cowslip Saved Him.

>Tn the Highlands of Scotland it> is a kindly custom to give names to tho cows as well as other animals. A Scotch lad had three to care for, and all three had nanie^. Tho red cow was Cowslip, the dun was Bell, and the black was Meadow Sweets The cows knew their names like threes c hildrcn, and would como when called. Ono day (the boy tells us) I was not with them, but had been gi\en a holiday and gone up on the sido of the hill. I climbed until I was so high that I got dazed, and lost my footing upon tho rocks, and came, tumbling down and snapped my ankle, so I could not move. I was \ery lonesome there. It seemed to mo that it was hours that I lay

there, hitching along among tho bracKen. T thought how night would come and nobody would know where 1 was. I could not move for tho angiuish of my foot. ]t was no use to call, for there was naught in sight sjuc the crows skirting; against} the sky. My heart was fit to break, for I was but a lad, and mother looked to me foil bread. I thought I would never see home again. After a while I spied a cow beneath, grazing on a slip of turf iust between a rift and the hills. 'She was a good long way below, but 1 knew hon. It was Cowslip ! 1 shouted aa loud as I could : ' Cowslip, Cowslip.' When she heard her name sho left off grazing and listened. I called again and again. What didj she do ? She just came toiling up and up— till she iveached me. Those hill cattle are rare climbers. She made a great ado over me , licked me with her rough, warm tongue, and was as pleased and as pitiful as though I were her own. Then liko. a Christian she set up a moan and moaned— so long v and so loud that they heard her in tho vale below. To hear a cow moaning like that they knew that sho was in trouble. So they came a searching and seek-* ing. They could see her red and! white body, though they could not nee me. So they found me, and iti was Cowslip saved my life.