That day the judge went after the butcher to get him to buy her.

When he returned with him, she had just eaten the monkey-wrench and the screw-driver, and she was trying to put away a fence-paling.

The butcher said she was a fair-enough sort of cow, but she was too thin.

He said he would buy her if the judge would feed her up and fatten her; and the judge said he would try.

He gave her that night food enough for four cows, and she consumed it as if she had been upon half rations for a month.