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There was another use made of empty jam-tins: they were tied to our barbed wire so that if any Turk tried to get through he would make a noise like the cowbells at milking-time. Talking about barbed wire, Johnny Turk played a huge joke on us on one occasion. The Turks had sneaked out and tied ropes to them and hauled them over to protect themselves.
By degrees Lilac began to look forward to the end of the day, when she should meet these friends, and found great comfort in the thought that they expected her and looked out for her coming. Especially she liked to be present at milking-time, and as often as she possibly could she stole out of the house at this hour to spend a few quiet moments with Ben and his cows.
She nibbled her leisurely way downhill till it was near milking-time, then she struck for home and towed him into Zermatt. We went into camp on that wild spot to which that ram had brought us. The men were greatly fatigued.
From the furthest east to the furthest west the cries spread as if by contagion, accompanied in some cases by the barking of a dog. It was not the expression of the valley's consciousness that beautiful Tess had arrived, but the ordinary announcement of milking-time half-past four o'clock, when the dairymen set about getting in the cows.
She nibbled her leisurely way downhill till it was near milking-time, then she struck for home and towed him into Zermatt. We went into camp on that wild spot to which that ram had brought us. The men were greatly fatigued.
"That be fine prayin'," she said, "with nobody forgot, an' all in black print so's wance said 'tedn' lost." After dinner, when Mary had gone to see a friend and the farm people were dawdling abroad till evening milking-time, Joan made her uncle read the service through again.
The dinner hour at Waverley, and whatever haste she made, she must be terribly late. "Ah, I must go," she said, "I ought not to have stayed so long. Good-bye. Thank you." "Come over again," said Daisy, calling after her as she ran to the gate. "Come at milking-time, and I'll show you all the lot." Anna nodded and smiled, and ran off as fast as she could.
William L.D. Ewing, a Democrat who travelled with Lincoln in one campaign, used to tell a story of how he and Lincoln were eager to win the favor of one of their hostesses, whose husband was an important man in his neighborhood. Neither had made much progress until at milking-time Mr.
"Let us worship God," he said, "by singing to His praise in the Hundred and Twenty-first Psalm. Psalm a Hundred and Twenty-one 'I to the hills will lift mine eyes, From whence doth come " The door opened, and Margaret entered. She was dusty and tired, for she had walked fourteen miles since milking-time; but in her hand she held a letter.
On that day it had been his habit for months to disappear early, come back for his dinner, slip quietly away again and return worn out and tired at milking-time. Invariably for a long time his mother had asked: "Whut you been a-doin', Jason?" And invariably his answer was: "Nothin' much."
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