"Make veal of that pretty creature! 'Tis a shame!" says the Humane Man. "I will buy him and take him home to the children."

"Ef Oi was you, Oi wud niver toi that rope around me waist," says the former proprietor of the calf.

"Oh, never fear; he is a gentle thing," says the Humane Man.

The "gentle thing" develops a tendency to play rather startling to the Humane Man.

And takes him for a little dash down a stony hill,

But is stopped at the bottom by a small dog.

"Be still, little calfy, till I untie this cord–that's a good little calfy," says the Humane Man.

Renewal of hostilities by the dog, and a circus performance by the Humane Man and his purchase.

Sudden termination to the circus performance owing to the want of more rope. "You micro-cephalous idiot," says the Humane Man, "if I had a knife I'd—"

—but the sentence is never finished, for again the dog interferes and the Humane Man is unfurled.

The "pretty creature" becomes really alarmed and goes through a break in the fence leaving the Humane Man in a serious position.