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Even Mary jumped up and down

“Oh, look! Oh, look!” Laura shouted “Pa, see the coith the wreath of roses!”

Pa laughed He was helping Johnny Johnson drive that coay froirls! Help me drive her into the stable!”

Laura ju, “Why, Pa, why? Oh, Pa, are we going to keep her?”

The little white coent into the stable, and Pa answered, “She’s our cow!”

Laura turned and ran as fast as she could She pounded down the path and rushed into the dugout, yelling: “Oh, Ma, Ma! Coot a cow! Oh, Ma, the prettiest cow!”

Ma took Carrie on her arm and came to see

“Charles!” she said

“She’s ours, Caroline!” said Pa “How do you like her?”

“But, Charles!” Ma said

“I got her fro hi and harvesting Look at her She’s a good littleto have milk and butter”

“Oh, Charles!” said Ma

Laura did not wait to hear any o, along the path and down into the dugout She grabbed her tin cup froain

Pa tied the pretty white cow in her own little stall, beside Pete and Bright She stood quietly chewing her cud Laura squatted down beside her, and holding the tin cup carefully in one hand, she took hold of that coith her other hand and squeezed just as she had seen Pa do when he h a streak of hite ht into the tin cup

“My goodness! What is that child doing!” Ma exclaimed