Cowland(2)
She doesn´t want to draw any unwanted attention to herself as she makes these plans so she potters about the field everyday doing cow things. She obediently follows the milking routine – up at six in the morning, walk to the milking machines in single file and then back to graze a little. Then trundled back in an orderly fashion and hooked up to the milking machines at six in the evening. And once more brought back to the fields to graze and sleep. She gives no one any inkling of the startling propaganda she is spreading among the fields.
It is a bright frosty morning when Farmer Gillespie wakes at five o´clock in the morning. He needs no alarm clock to get him out of bed. He simply says to himself before retiring for the night, “get up at five o´clock.” He says a little prayer for all his family, friends and animals and then he turns in for the night.
The morning is chillingly quiet. He pulls on his rubber boots that were once green but now are so caked in mud you can´t tell what colour they are. Boozer the dog bounces out of the cabin and on up to the lush fields. Farmer Gillespie grabs an old handle of a brush that serves him well as a walking stick and trudges on up after him.
They get to the muddy tracks that have been sculptured by the tractor. The mud has frozen hard.
It´s lumpy and hard to walk on. They get to the gate. Gillespie shouts at Boozer to get the cows. He squeezes under the gate. Its only a routine, the cows know to be lined out and ready to go at this time. They generally ignore Boozer´s persuasions.