Not long ago, when I was passing over the Rockies about



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six o'clock in the morning, I saw a little child, about six years
of age, knocked over by a calf while the child was milking
the cow. Probably that taught the child better how to
manage the cow and the calf. The mother was working
inside the shanty, and she called out to the child some
directions which I did not hear, but the result of which was
that the chUd drove the calf away, took the milking stool,
and sat down and finished the milking. I think you will
agree that that child learnt its work early in life — work
likely to be useful to it, and calculated to make it a useful
member of society.
During my travels I visited a farm some fourteen miles
from a small town — a little village it might be called — and
was talking for a few minutes to the man who lived there.
