Besides Latin, I used to try to teach the cows a little poetry, andit is a very good plan. It does not do the cows much good, but it isvery good exercise for a boy farmer. I used to commit to memory asgood short poems as I could find (the cows liked to listen to"Thanatopsis" about as well as anything), and repeat them when I wentto the pasture, and as I drove the cows home through the sweet fernsand down the rocky slopes. It improves a boy's elocution a greatdeal more than driving oxen.