What a child requires in such a case is sympathy and help, not ridicule.
[Illustration: AFRAID OF THE COW.] This, in the case supposed, she meets in the form of the farmer's son, a young man browned in face and plain in attire, who comes along while she stands loitering at the fence looking at the cow, and not daring after all, notwithstanding the assurances she has received at the house, to cross the field.

His name is Joseph, and he is a natural gentleman--a class of persons of whom a much larger number is found in this humble guise, and a much smaller number in proportion among the fashionables in elegant life, than is often supposed.

"Yes," says Joseph, after hearing the child's statement of the case, "you are right.

Cows are sometimes vicious, I know; and you are perfectly right to be on your guard against such as you do not know when you meet them in the country.

This one, as it happens, is very kind; but still, I will go through the field with you." So he goes with her through the field, stopping on the way to talk a little to the cow, and to feed her with an apple which he has in his pocket.
It is in this spirit that the fears, and antipathies, and false imaginations of children are generally to be dealt with; though, of course, there may be many exceptions to the general rule.
_When Children are in the Wrong_.
There is a certain sense in which we should feel a sympathy with children in the wrong that they do.