"The cow would like it ever so much better," the little boys
declared, "on account of the variety. If she did not like the rocks
and the bushes, she could walk round and find the grassy places."

"I am not sure," said Elizabeth Eliza, "but it would be less
dangerous to keep the cow in the lot behind the house, because
she would not be coming and going, morning and night, in that
jerky way the Larkins' cows come home. They don't mind which
gate they rush in at. I should hate to have our cow dash into our
front yard just as I was coming home of an afternoon."

"That is true," said Mr. Peterkin; "we can have the door of the
cow-house open directly into the pasture, and save the coming and
going."

The little boys were quite disappointed. The cow would miss the
exercise, and they would lose a great pleasure.

Solomon John suggested that they might sit on the fence and watch
the cow.

It was decided to keep the cow in their own pasture; and as they
were to put on an end kitchen, it would be perfectly easy to build
a dairy.

The cow proved a quiet one. She was a little excited when all the
family stood round at the first milking, and watched her slowly
walking into the shed.