The young daughter of a cow farmer describes life at the barn. She says that barns are female places but are forbidden to women. Looking back in time, she wants her mother to leave her father and the barn with the cows. On the other side of the barn, lies a hill with a lake at the bottom of it. The cows often like to drink the cool water from the lake.  The girl recalls the feeling of standing in the barn with the warm, cozy cows with their sweet faces. In the kitchen, the mother would cook breakfast in the dark and wait for her farmer husband and daughter to come inside. She does not seem happy with her domestic life in the kitchen.   The girl remembers when her father would beat the dairy cows. She feels pain from watching, and wonders what the cows possibly could have done wrong. She knows very little about the situation and can only see the rage on her father’s face. She looks back at the house to see if her mother is watching, but cannot see that far away.  In the kitchen, the girl often looks outside at the pasture. In her dreams, men from the pasture would approach her on horses and surround the house to take her away. However, she stays and refuses to budge just like her mother. She is too much a part of her surroundings to leave.