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Into the teapot which supplied Miles with his morning cup there was put, for one making, eight pounds of tea! not ounces, observe, but pounds, twenty-nine pounds of sugar, and six gallons an absolute cowful of milk! The pot itself consisted of eight enormous coppers, which were filled with boiling water to the brim.
I delivered another tap, whereupon he squealed and roared so that he brought his mother to his rescue like a ton of bricks on stilts, a great fuss in her eyes which generally beamed with a cowful calm. Seizing my arm she shook me like a rat, broke my harmless little stick in pieces, threw it in my face, and patting Jimmy on the shoulder, said: "Poor man! She sharn't touch me Jimmy while I know.
"Guess they do," grumbled Andy. "And a cow," went on Uncle William, "but there " he checked himself. "What am I talkin' about? How'd I ever keep a cow? What'd I do with the milk? I couldn't eat a whole cowful." He sat gazing with far-off eyes at the glimpse of blue water. Andy chewed scornfully on a bit of dry grass. William turned to him suddenly.
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