A young girl is the daughter of a fox farmer. She helps out around the farm often, and she loves it. Her father also employs a strange man named Henry who makes a rude remark about her being "only a girl" when her father boasts about her help on the farm. This seems to be the girl's first interaction with this sort of judgement and it alters her reality a bit. She starts noticing that her parents are fighting because her mother does most of the house work and needs her daughter's help too. She wants her daughter to be more "ladylike" and stop doing farm work. The girl despises this because she loves the farm and hates doing housework. One day, the father has to shoot a horse in the field and the girl and her brother sneak to watch. The two aren't phased, but the next time a female horse is supposed to be shot, the narrator helps it escape because she starts to relate to the female horse more than her father. Her brother sees this and later tells her parents. The girl starts to cry and her parents brush it off as her being "only a girl", which she admits may be true.