I don't even like chickens; but we're obliged to put up with them.

I'm always glad, though, when they're eaten.

I once went a voyage with a cow on deck.

They wanted the milk for an officer's lady and her children.

That cow used to make me melancholy." "Why, sir?
Was she such a bad sailor ?" "No; she was always stretching out her neck to try and lick some green paint off one of the boats.