So, using cow sense (otherwise known as common sense), you step off
the path and walk along next to it.
It doesn't take long before you realize that there was a reason for
walking ON the plaid jell-o path. All along next to it are thorns and
mud and little blue plaid flannel leeches with hair that attach
themselves to your hooves and feet and drool on you. You stomp wildly
but they refuse to let go. You jump back on the path and sink in. As
each leech hits the jell-o, it falls off and lands, PLOP, flounders
around for a minute, then sinks to the bottom. You pull yourself out
of the jell-o, then try to run. You find if you run as fast as you
can, you go too fast to sink.