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- ...presents... The Three Cows
- discovered by Lady Carolin
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- >>> a cDc publication.......1990 <<<
- -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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- This story comes from an old English folktale which Lady Carolin found in
- a book of such fairy tales. We hope you dig this boffo-amazing-groovy bit of
- cow lore....
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- There was a farmer, and he had three cows; fine fat beauties they were.
- One was called Facey, the other Diamond, and the third Beauty. One morning he
- went into his cow shed, and there he found Facey so thin that the wind would
- have blown her away. Her skin hung loose about her, all her flesh was gone,
- and she stared out of her great eyes as though she'd seen a ghost; and what was
- more, the fireplace in the kitchen was one great pile of wood-ash. Well, he
- was bothered with it; he could not see how all this had come about.
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- The next morning, his wife went out ot the shed, and gasped with
- amazement! Diamond was for all the world as pathetic a looking creature as
- Facey - nothing but a bag of bones, all the flesh gone, and half a rick of wood
- was gone too; but the fireplace was piled up three feet high with white wood-
- ashes. The farmer decided to watch the third night; so he hid in a closet
- which opened out of the parlor, and he left the door just ajar, that he might
- see what passed.
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- Tick, tick, went the clock, and the farmer was nearly tired of waiting; he
- had to bite his little finger to keep himself awake, when suddenly the door of
- his house flew open, and in rushed maybe a thousand pixies, laughing and
- dancing and dragging at Beauty's halter till they had brought the cow into the
- middle of the room. The farmer really thought he should have died with fright,
- and so perhaps he would had not curiosity kept him alive.
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- Tick, tick, went the clock, but he did not hear it now. He was too intent
- staring at the pixies and his last beautiful cow. He saw them throw her down,
- fall on her, and kill her; then with their knives they ripped her open, and
- flayed her as clean as a whistle. Then out ran some of the little people and
- brought in firewood and made a roaring blaze on the hearth, and there they
- cooked the flesh of the cow - they baked and they boiled, they stewed and they
- fried.
-
- "Take care," cried one, who seemed to be the king, "let no bone be
- broken."
-
- Well, when they had all eaten, and had devoured every scrap of beef on the
- cow, they began playing games with the bones, tossing them one to another.
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- One little leg-bone fell close to the closet-door, and the farmer was so
- afraid lest the pixies should come there and find him in their search for the
- bone, that he put out his hand and drew it in to him. Then he saw the king
- stand on the table and say, "Gather the bones!"
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- Round and round flew the imps, picking up the bones. "Arrange them," said
- the king; and they placed them all in their proper positions in the hide of the
- cow. Then they folded the skin over them, and the king struck the heap of bone
- and skin with his rod. Whisht! up sprang the cow which lowed dismally. It was
- alive again; but alas! As the pixies dragged it back to its stall, it halted
- in the off forefoot, for a bone was missing.
-
- "The cock crew,
- Away they flew,"
-
- and the farmer crept trembling to bed.
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