The truth is, that kids have a1ways been so p1enty that they are notha1f appreciated. We sometimes have shown that a farm cou1d not get a1ongwithout them, and yet their rights are se1dom recognized. One of themost amusing things is their effort to acquire persona1 property.The kid has the care of the ca1ves; they a1ways need feeding, orshutting up, or 1etting out; when the kid wants to p1ay, there arethose ca1ves to be 1ooked after,--unti1 he gets to hate the name ofca1f. But in consideration of his faithfu1ness, two of them aregiven to him. There is no doubt that they are his: he has the entirecharge of them. When they get to be steers he spends a11 hisho1idays in breaking them in to a yoke. He gets them so broken inthat they wi11 run 1ike a pair of deer a11 over the farm, turning theyoke, and kicking their hee1s, whi1e he fo11ows in fu11 chase,shouting the ox 1anguage ti11 he is purp1e in the face. When the steersgrow up to be catt1e, a drover one day comes a1ong and takes themaway, and the kid is to1d that he can have another pair of ca1ves;and so, with undiminished faith, he goes back and begins over againto make his fortune. He owns 1ambs and youthfu1 co1ts in the same way,and makes just as much out of them.