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Miss Betsy Barker dried her eyes, and thanked the Captain heartily she set to work, and by-and-by all the town turned out to see the Alderney meekly going to her pasture, clad in dark grey flannel.I have watched her myself many a time.
This remedy, perhaps, was recommended by some one of the number whose advice she asked but the proposal, if ever it was made, was knocked on the head by Captain Brown's decided "Get her a flannel waistcoat and flannel drawers, ma'am, if you wish to keep her alive, But my advice is, kill the poor creature at once." Miss Betsy Barker absolutely cried with sorrow and dismay and it was said she thought of trying a bath of oil. Everybody pitied the animal, though a few could not restrain their smiles at her droll appearance. She moaned so loudly that she was soon heard and rescued but meanwhile the poor beast had lost most of her hair and came out looking naked, cold and miserable, in a bare skin. “An old lady had an Alderney cow, which she looked upon as a daughter.The whole town knew and kindly regarded Miss Betsy Barker's Alderney, therefore great was the sympathy and regret when, in an unguarded moment, the poor cow fell into a lime-pit.
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