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And his practice was like his counsel. He saw our plain New England life with as honest New England eyes as ever looked at a huckleberry-bush or into a milking-pail. This noble quality of his had its dangerous side. In one of his exalted moods he would have us "Give to barrows, trays and pans Grace and glimmer of romance." But in his Lecture on "Poetry and Imagination," he says:
An hour passed, the girl returned, properly seated now, with a bag of bran in front of her. On nearing the cattle-shed she was met by a boy bringing a milking-pail, who held the reins of the pony whilst she slid off. The boy led away the horse, leaving the pail with the young woman.
After this the teat becomes deaf, as it is called, and no more milk can afterward be drawn from the quarter of the udder to which the corded teat is attached. The milking-pail is of various forms and of various materials. The Dutch use brass ones, which are brilliantly scoured every time they are in use.
An hour passed, the girl returned, properly seated now, with a bag of bran in front of her. On nearing the cattle-shed she was met by a boy bringing a milking-pail, who held the reins of the pony whilst she slid off. The boy led away the horse, leaving the pail with the young woman.
And his practice was like his counsel. He saw our plain New England life with as honest New England eyes as ever looked at a huckleberry-bush or into a milking-pail. This noble quality of his had its dangerous side. In one of his exalted moods he would have us "Give to barrows, trays and pans Grace and glimmer of romance." But in his Lecture on "Poetry and Imagination," he says:
All windfalls and maggot-cored codlins were excluded from the apple pies; and as there was no known dish large enough for the purpose, the puddings were stirred up in the milking-pail, and boiled in the three-legged bell- metal crock, of great weight and antiquity, which every travelling tinker for the previous thirty years had tapped with his stick, coveted, made a bid for, and often attempted to steal.
Struck with horror, he found her talking in a fearful strain to an imaginary second person, the cow still uncared for, and the milking-pail upside down, she standing upon the bottom, busy adjusting a halter to one of the beams, and imploring the ideal person not to go until she could get all ready to accompany him to that happy land of which he spoke, and to which he showed her the way.
She is as good as any Crawford that ever trod the heather. She came o' the English Hampdens. Whar will ye get better blood than that?" "No Hampdens that ever lived " "Whist! Whist, laird! The Crawfords are like a' ither folk; they have twa legs and twa hands." "He should hae married a Scots lass, though she had carried a milking-pail."
Troodie! come up from the dale; Moelen and Corwen, and Blodwen and Trodwen, I'll meet you all with my milking-pail!" The echo of it brought a pleased smile to the old man's lips, as he neared his home and left the clear singing behind him. The day had broadened to noontide, and had passed into late afternoon, when Gethin Owens once more crept round the Cribserth.
The mistress of the milking-pail stared but, making no answer to this round declaration, immediately proceeded to show, that the alarm of the preceding evening had in no degree injured her appetite. When the meal was finished, the Captain proposed to them to take boat, in order that Mrs.
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