`` Anne , for mercy 's sake , stop , '' panted poor Diana . `` I 'm right out of breath and you are wet to the skin . '' `` I must ... get ... that cow ... out ... before ... Mr. Harrison ... sees her , '' gasped Anne . `` I do n't ... care ... if I 'm ... drowned ... if we ... can ... only ... do that . '' But the Jersey cow appeared to see no good reason for being hustled out of her luscious browsing ground . No sooner had the two breathless girls got near her than she turned and bolted squarely for the opposite corner of the field . `` Head her off , '' screamed Anne . `` Run , Diana , run . '' Diana did run . Anne tried to , and the wicked Jersey went around the field as if she were possessed . Privately , Diana thought she was . It was fully ten minutes before they headed her off and drove her through the corner gap into the Cuthbert lane . There is no denying that Anne was in anything but an angelic temper at that precise moment . Nor did it soothe her in the least to behold a buggy halted just outside the lane , wherein sat Mr. Shearer of Carmody and his son , both of whom wore a broad smile . `` I guess you 'd better have sold me that cow when I wanted to buy her last week , Anne , '' chuckled Mr. Shearer . `` I 'll sell her to you now , if you want her , '' said her flushed and disheveled owner . `` You may have her this very minute . '' `` Done . I 'll give you twenty for her as I offered before , and Jim here can drive her right over to Carmody . She 'll go to town with the rest of the shipment this evening .
Mr. Reed XXXXX Brighton wants a Jersey cow . ''
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