"She's choked over an apple," his father explained, "and I'm trying to shove it along."
Well, it wasn't a great while before the Muley Cow seemed to be quite herself again.
"Rough treatment!" Farmer Green remarked. "But it certainly fixed her."
"Why did she choke?" Johnnie wanted to know.
"She tried to swallow a whole apple," said his father. "Whenever you feed such things as apples or potatoes to a cow you must always chop them into pieces.... Now drive the old cow to the barn," he told Johnnie. "She'll have to wear a poke again."
When the Muley Cow heard that she wondered if she hadn't been very foolish.