One-Eyeed Cow In Jane Smiley's 'Cry'

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Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yeller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only jest a short stump like a bannanner, and he used to swear by it but that cow’d carry the wole’ntire camp on her back just as easy Smiley could carry his winnins home. Called herDaffodil on ‘count of her color ‘n thought it was funny cause a how big she was. Smiley sure was funny like that, but this cow Daffodil here was the biggest thing on four legs this side of the Rockies. He’d strut her round the camp bettin’ every man with something heavy she’d haul it like a ox. Oh he’d fasten a lil wagon to her load up all manner a things on that there wagon an’ watch her take off with it. Smith bet him one time she couldn’t carry two a his anvils, …show more content…
‘Nother time a hefty clan a German folk’s passin’ through—sixteen or seventeen of ‘emcosuins ‘n all—bet Daffodil couldn’t carry the lot of ‘em one side a camp to th’other, but sure ’nuff she just about was skippin’ haulin’ that family. Yeah that cow made smiley a good bit a coin, and the camp thought she was just darlin’. But up come this tall hat feller from Texas says he heard word the biggest heifer in the territory, and that he had himself a bull near twice her size and that he was lookin’ to mate the two. Hemust’a made Smiley quite an offer, ‘cause Smiley couldn’t help but make another wager. Said if Daffodil could carry his bull more’n fifty feet the Texan would double it and if not Smiley’d