They will be friendly and communicative if you encourage them.

Answering this description was a Mr.H.W.Coffman, a dealer in Short Horn cattle, who was travelling from Buffalo on the Erie road to Chicago.

He lives at Willow Grove Stock Farm, a hundred miles west of Chicago on the Great Western Railway, one mile South of German Valley.

Naturally we talked about cows, and we discussed the different breeds of cattle, especially the Buffalo cows of the present-day Egypt, and the Apis of four thousand years ago, which according to the representations, on the monuments, was more like the Devon breed than the Buffalo.

The names which he gave to his cows were somewhat poetic.