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On work-days still wearing the same old hat I wonder what material it was originally? tough leather probably its fibres soaked with mortar, its shine replaced by lime, its shape dented by bricks, its rotundity flattened by timber, stuck about with cow's hair for a milker leans his head against the animal sodden with rain, and still the same old hat.
Accordingly, he purchased a cow of a man named Smith, who lives over at the Rising Sun. She was warranted to be fresh and a first-rate milker. When Judge Twiddler got her home, he asked his hired man, Mooney, if he knew how to milk a cow, and Mooney said of course he did. The animal, therefore, was consigned to Mooney's care.
It was bad enough to be a cow milker, but to be a sheep herder was living death. These herds thickened from year to year. They followed the feed, were clipped once, sometimes twice, and then were headed back to winter in the south, dying in myriads on the way only to reappear augmented in numbers the succeeding year.
The ordinary adult farm labourer commonly rises at from four to five o'clock; if he is a milker, and has to walk some little distance to his work, even as early as half-past three. Four was the general rule, but of late years the hour has grown later.
He came under the head of a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. He was another menace to the range, and was to be discouraged. The mutter of war was soon heard. One day a couple of whisky-heated cowboys rode furiously up behind Mose and called out: "Where in h l ye think ye're goin', you dam cow milker?"
"Hai, you little rip," said Scott, "how the deuce do you expect to get your rations if you aren't quiet?" A cool white hand steadied the brat, who forthwith choked as the milk gurgled into his mouth. "'Mornin'," said the milker. "You've no notion how these little fellows can wriggle." "Oh, yes, I have." She whispered, because the world was asleep. "Only I feed them with a spoon or a rag.
He also maintains that its property as a milker could not be improved without producing a certain detriment to its grazing qualities. Distinguished Devon breeders themselves have come to the same conclusion upon this point.
Malcolm, will you be so kind as to go with me to the fields for a few minutes while I milk?" "Yes!" "I will not detain you long." "Oh, no! I suppose about an hour. You are a shocking bad milker." "True; I never went near a cow until I came to this country; and I have never been able to overcome my fear of them." "More shame for you! A farmer's wife, and afraid of a cow!
She was a capital milker, and a good honest child. Her people lived in the village, and her forebears had always lived there. They were absolutely indigenous and autochthonous a far older Brookshire family than any of the dwellers in the big houses about.
That depended, said Uli, how one was accustomed to prepare, and according to how the stock treated the fodder. When they went at the manure he had his troubles with the milker, who wanted to take only the coarsest stuff off the top, as it were the cream from the milk. It was nice and warm outside, said Uli, and the stock wouldn't get cold; they would work thoroughly this time.
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