But what most interested Peter, although he felt a shudder of horror at the sight, were the rotted tail and two great sores on the flank that lay uppermost.
"That's a bad-looking cow," he said.
"Ain't it ?" replied the one with the lantern.

"But you can't help their havin' them, if you feed them on mash." "Hold your tongue, Bill," said the man who had followed Peter.
"Take some of your own advice," said Peter, turning quickly, and speaking in a voice that made the man step back.

A terrible feeling was welling up in Peter's heart.

He thought of the poor little fever-stricken children.

He saw the poor fever-stricken cow.