But an hour or two afterward she swallowed six croquet-balls that were lying upon the grass, and ate half a table-cloth and a pair of drawers from the clothes-line.

That evening her milk seemed thin, and the judge attributed it to the indigestibility of the table-cloth.
During the night she must have got to walking in her sleep, for she climbed over the fence; and when she was discovered, she was swallowing one of Mrs.Twiddler's hoopskirts.

That evening she ran dry and didn't give any milk at all.

The judge thought the exercise she had taken must have been too severe, and probably the hoopskirt was not sufficiently nutritious.

It was comforting, however, to reflect that she was less expensive, from the latter point of view, when she was dry than when she was fresh.