“I was once,” he remarks, “on a slow California train, and I went to the
conductor and suggested that the cowketcher was on the wrong end of the
train; for I said, ‘You will never overtake a cow, you know; but if you’d
put it on the other end it might be useful, for now there’s nothin’ on
earth to hinder a cow from walkin’ right in and bitin’ the folks!”