Be Kind to the Cow Mother Antique Punch Paper Embroidery, Framed folk art mannequin but still holding on to

but still holding on to much of its original paint

some of the details show it significantly paler than it is

Overall dimensions: 9 15/16" x 6 3/4"

I recently purchased a bundle of antique school notebooks from a bookseller in England

Be Kind to the Cow Mother Antique Punch Paper Embroidery, Framed folk art mannequin but still holding on toBe Kind To The Cow Mother The ambiguity and multiple possible readings of this old punch paper embroidery makes it is one of my favorite finds ever so wonderfully curious! Are we to be kind to the the mother cow? Or was its maker pleading to her mother to be kind to the cow?! Or, was it "Mother" who made this and decided to sign it as such? I tend to lean toward the first reading, thus loving the specificity of it being not just the cow but the cow