ELIZABETH. And a good thing if there were others of the same pattern
now, I'm thinking.

DANIEL. So 'twould be--so 'twould be. But times do bring changes in
the forms of the cattle and I count 'tis the same with the womenfolk.
'Tis one thing this year and 'tis t'other in the next.

MAY. Do tell us more of what you did see at the Fair, Uncle.

DANIEL. There was a ram. My word! but the four feet of he did cover
a good two yards of ground; just as it might be, standing.

ELIZABETH. Come, Father.

DANIEL. And the horns upon the head of he did reach out very nigh as
far as might do the sails of one of they old wind-mills.

MAY. O Uncle, and how was it with the wool of him?

DANIEL. The wool, my wench, did stand a good three foot from all
around of the animal. You might have set a hen with her eggs on top
of it--and that you might. And now I comes to recollect how 'twas,
you could have set a hen one side of the wool and a turkey t'other.

MAY. O Uncle, that must have been a beautiful animal! And what was
the tail of it?

DANIEL. The tail, my little maid? Why 'twas longer nor my arm and
as thick again--'twould have served as a bell rope to the great bell
yonder in Gloucester church--and so 'twould. Ah, 'twas sommat like a