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She says it__ wrong to be frittering away my hours asking questions when there__ work to be done. But I don__ see how a question can be wrong. Can you, Pa? Ma says the Bible sets out what__ right and wrong so we don__ have to bother ourselves with it none but it seems to me that it ain__ so matter-of-fact. Like when you kilt that old cow last week and I didn__ want to eat it __ause he was my favorite and so gentle besides. Ma said I was sinful to waste food. But I said that maybe we shouldn__ go about killing and eating cows when they was so peaceful-like. Ma said that was foolishness and that God put the cows here just so as we can eat __m. But that don__ seem like such a good deal for the cows to me. Preacher told us not more than four Sundays ago that God loves all his creatures, but it ain__ loving to my way of thinking to create a thing just for it to be food. Them cows ain__ never done nothing to us. Which got me to thinking that maybe we got it wrong and they got a purpose we don__ know nothing about.