“Girls that lawn is a sight! It should have been mowed long ago, but we have had so much to think and plan about that it was forgotten.”
“Why mow it now just as the cow is coming. Let her eat off the tops,” suggested Natalie, to the amusement of her companions.
“That’s a good idea, Jimmy,” added Janet. “Instead of taking Sue to pasture in the field we will let her graze here.”
“Besides, Jimmy,” said Norma, “we could never run a blade through that grass. It will need a scythe, first”
“And that means Farmer Ames for half a day again,” sighed Mrs. James, thinking of the cost of keeping a lawn in order.
“We’ll just have Folsom tether Sue out here when she comes and we’ll see how much grass she can cut down in a day,” laughed Belle.
“Couldn’t we tether the calf here, too? You always see a calf out in pasture with her mother,” remarked Frances.
The members of Solomon’s Seal Camp appeared now and joined the others to await the coming of their corporation capital. Not long after the scouts came to the farm-house, Dorothy Ames was seen hurrying along the country road. Then she explained that she wanted to see Sue and Susy and appraise them from her experience with cattle. Finally Nancy Sherman and Hester Tompkins came from Four Corners and the membership of the two scout patrols was complete.
The girls began to feel impatient, and Janet even ventured to say: “Maybe that old farmer won’t bring them to-day,” when a heavy lumbering farm wagon was seen coming down the road.
The cow was tethered on the lawn as Mrs. James directed the farmer to do, and the calf was taken to the rear-grass plot and staked there because Folsom said the cow had better not see too much of her calf or she would not graze, and then there would be no milk. As plenty of milk was the great objective of the corporation the scouts were careful to carry out the man’s advice.