每天读一篇英语小故事：A Life-Saving Cow

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　　Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by
Nancy Brown’s farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slipped
and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk. The fall knocked her out for a moment
or two. When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and favorite cows, was
licking her face. The water was rising. Nancy got up and began walking slowly
with Lizzie. The water was now waist high. Nancy’s pace got slower and slower.
Finally, all she could do was to throw her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to
hang on. About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed to successfully pull herself and
Nancy out of the raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island now in
the middle of acres of white water.
        　　Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and
lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy. A
helicopter lowered a paramedic, who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist. They
raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red
Cross had set up an emergency shelter.
        　　When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the
“island.” Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe my
life to her,” said Nancy sobbingly.