This white fluid is like cow’s milk in appearance, but it is not equally good from all trees. But it is just so with the cows, you know. Some of these animals give rich yellow milk, and some of the milk is blue-white, and thin. Some give a great deal, and others very little. And some cow trees yield richer and yellower milk than others, but it is all sweet and wholesome, and of a pleasant smell. It tastes, in fact, almost exactly like cow’s milk. Like that it is used for making custards, puddings, &c.; and, when boiled, behaves just as ordinary milk does, and will run over the vessel in a minute, if not watched. When allowed to stand for a time cream forms on the top. This is taken off, and made into a sort of cheese, not very different from our cheeses. [Illustration: THE COW TREE.] This is a very nice kind of cow to have—this vegetable cow—as it requires no feeding, or care, and, when it dies others spring up in its place. It seems a pity that we cannot have these economical cows in our country. We have plants here that yield a milky juice when the stalks are broken or cut, but you must not be beguiled into drinking any of these milky saps, for they are very disagreeable in taste, being sharp and bitter; and many of them are poisonous. THE JOLLY CABORDMEN. There was once a nation of remarkably genial people who knew no evil and would not have practiced it if they had known it. They were very industrious, and their days were so busy and they took such an interest in their work, that they had no time to be wicked or sad. They were called Cabordmen, for what reason I know not, for the name of their country was not Cabord. Their principal industry was tilling the soil, and they generally worked with a will. [Illustration: THE JOLLY CABORDMEN AT WORK.] When they first settled their country the land was poor and very little grew upon it that was worth having. But, year by year, the soil became richer, on account of the care they took of it, and all sorts of valuable grains, and grasses, and vegetables, and fruits were grown, and these Cabordmen had all and more than they wanted of the good things of the earth. So they waxed rich and happy, and there never was a time when a man was hungry that he did not have some good things to eat, and it very seldom happened that any of these hard workers found himself without an appetite at meal-time. For people who work hard and well are very apt to have all they want and to want all they have. If they do not want it to use themselves, they want it to sell or give away. So, in time the people of this country became not only very comfortable but very wealthy. They had great barns full of grain and vast stores of everything needful for their use and livelihood, and as they often sold their surplus productions to other nations, they had great vaults full of money.