"And cocoa-nut cakes," exclaimed the little boys.

"We don't need the milk for cocoa-nut cakes," said Mrs. Peterkin.

The little boys thought they might have a cocoa-nut tree instead of
a cow. You could have the milk from the cocoa-nuts, and it would
be pleasant climbing the tree, and you would not have to feed it.

"Yes," said Mr. Peterkin, "we shall have to feed the cow."

"Where shall we pasture her?" asked Agamemnon.

"Up on the hills, up on the hills," exclaimed the little boys, "where
there are a great many bars to take down, and huckleberry-bushes!
"

Mr. Peterkin had been thinking of their own little lot behind the
house.

"But I don't know," he said, "but the cow might eat off all the grass
in one day, and there would not be any left for to-morrow, unless
the grass grew fast enough every night."

Agamemnon said it would depend upon the season. In a rainy
season the grass would come up very fast, in a drought it might
not grow at all.

"I suppose," said Mrs. Peterkin, "that is the worst of having a
cow,­there might be a drought."