The wages of that man for one day were one dollar, and so the butter was costing about three dollars a pound, without counting the keep of the cow.

When they tried the butter, it was so poor that they couldn't eat it, and they gave it to the man to grease the wheelbarrow with.

It seemed somewhat luxurious and princely to maintain a cow for the purpose of supplying grease at three dollars a pound for the wheelbarrow, but it was hard to see precisely where the profits came in.

After about a fortnight the cow seemed so unhappy in the stable that the judge turned her out in the yard.
The first night she was loose she upset the grape-arbor with her horns and ate four young peach trees and a dwarf pear tree down to the roots.

The next day they gave her as much hay as she would eat, and it seemed likely that her appetite was appeased.