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The tree was ablaze from its top to the rim of the cloth-wound churn, and was hung with tinsel trimmings from the farm-house, the selfsame trimmings that for years had twinkled and winked at the little girl each Christmas eve.
One pint of ferment is allowed to every five pints of fresh milk in the cask or churn, and the whole is beaten with the dasher for about an hour, when it is set aside in a temperature of +18 degrees to +26 degrees Reaumur.
Well, I took hold of the churn dasher and helped her, and she pretended to be afraid that we might turn the churn over, and our hands came together and I felt like throwing up my hat and dancing right there." "Did you find out as to how she stands?" "Lyman, would you believe that I weakened?
But the old woman, if anything, was kinder than ever to her. It was Saturday, and butter day. Uncle Jabez owned one cow, and since Ruth had come to the mill it was her work twice a week to churn the butter. The churn was a stone crock with a wooden dasher and Ruth had just emptied in the thick cream when Helen Cameron ran in. "Oh, Ruth!" she cried.
Afterward she had helped with the breakfast dishes and had taken her turn at the butter-making in the spring-house, thumping the heavy dasher up and down in the cedar churn until her arms ached. But it was cool and pleasant down in the spring-house with the water trickling out in a ceaseless drip-drip on the cold stones.
Is my mother likely to come in, do you think? "'She must be here in a few minutes, the other replied; 'she was waiting till they'd churn, that she might bring you down a little fresh milk and butter. "'I wish she was wid me, said the poor lad, 'for I'm lonely wantin' her her voice and the very touch of her hands goes to my heart.
This Bluff did with cheerful alacrity, and immediately the little motor-boat began to churn the water with her accustomed zeal. "How long had we been sitting there?" asked Jerry. "Just two hours," was Frank's reply as he consulted his little nickel watch. "And now what?" demanded Will. "We'll move in toward the shore somewhat, and wait for the fog to sweep away.
An' I could learn him how to churn. I s'pec' he 'd make a beautiful churner. He sho' is a pretty little fat man," he continued flatteringly. "An' dress? That beau was jest dressed plumb up to the top notch.
Thus they were able to draw close, and talk without much fear of being overheard. "Good Lord, Churn, I thought I'd missed you," were the first words Clo caught. As the girl spoke she flung a quick glance toward her little neighbour at the next table, but Clo had never looked so child-like. "I went to the Riche, and you'd gone," Kit continued. "To the Western; too late.
She notes with suspicion the actions of the women who bring home webs of cloth from the store, instead of spinning them as their mothers did before them; and she shakes her head at the wives who run to the village grocery store every fortnight, imitating the wasteful American women, who throw butter in the fire faster than it can be turned from the churn. She watches yet other things.
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