She says its wrong to be frittering away my hours asking questions when theres work to be done. But I dont see how a question can be wrong. Can you, Pa? Ma says the Bible sets out whats right and wrong so we dont have to bother ourselves with it none but it seems to me that it aint so matter-of-fact. Like when you kilt that old cow last week and I didnt want to eat it cause he was my favorite and so gentle besides. Ma said I was sinful to waste food. But I said that maybe we shouldnt 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 em. But that dont 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 aint loving to my way of thinking to create a thing just for it to be food. Them cows aint never done nothing to us. Which got me to thinking that maybe we got it wrong and they got a purpose we dont know nothing about.