We know this because, as our narrator vividly describes it, "the calf fell back weakly, still beginning to breathe" (Still's 65). Saul Highgight leaves the calf after bringing it to the Baldriges because he might have thought the calf was dead. Even though the calf was not theirs, they saved it because it was about to die. However, he later discovered that the calf was not dead and took it home. I firmly believe that if Saul had left the calf with the Baldrige family, the terrible thing that happened to the family, the green one dying, the family not having enough nutritious food as such, could have been avoided. One of the examples that suggests that the baby would be alive if the calf were, again from Baldrige, is Alpha saying: "If Saul Hignight had not claimed the heifer (calf), we would have had too sweetness and butter. The baby could have survived” (Still’s 170). This shows that they (the narrator's family) would have transformed a calf into a cow and the baby could have survived on milk and