Once, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his son tried to get a calf to go into the barn from the pasture. While Emerson pushed and his son pulled, the young calf stiffened its legs stubbornly and refused to leave the pasture. An Irish housemaid who was employed by Emerson at that time took notice of the situation and interfered. She put her index finger in the calf_s mouth and let it suck on it while she led it gently to the barn. The housemaid was not an educated person and definitely could not write essays and books like Emerson did, yet in that she proved that she had more sense. Emerson who only thought about what he wanted failed to notice what the calf wanted
