Nate smiles and told her not to worry about him, after all,he said, Maudie was having the calf-not he.

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She turned from the window. She laughed as she saw Nate trying to cover the long, kicking legs of the baby calf.

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Olive could see it clearly part of the head of the young calf stowly, painfully coming out.

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He needed the cloth, he said to hold the calf's wet head as he pulled it out.

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Then he told her again that he did not want her to stay when Maudie's calf came.

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A male is called a steer if it had its reproductive organs removed as a calf.

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A calf is a young cow. A young female cow, especially one that has not yet had a calf, is called a heifer: H-E-I-F-E-R.

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And he laughed,too. Now,the calf was covered and quiet, sleeping near its mother.

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But Maudie made an angry noise and kicked the calf away.

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Maudie was ready to have her calf any minute now.

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Maudie was quiet. In the hay,lay a 1ittle wet calf.

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But she'll love her calf in the morning."

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