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Updated: July 9, 2025
The meat market is quite interesting if you can stand the smell. The natives eat the whole carcass. The milkman, morning and evening, calls at the door of his customer with his goods in the original package. The goats are more docile and better behaved than the children. They stand and deliver the quantity demanded. There is neither chance for nor great economy in adulteration water is too scarce.
How dared she treat his courtly advances with flippant distrust! "Are you aware, Mr. Lyons," Mrs. Taylor was saying, "that one of the present members of the school board is a milkman, and another a carpenter both of them persons of very ordinary efficiency from an educational standpoint?
And the little toads were getting hungrier and hungrier every minute and they cried a lot, yes, indeed! "This is too bad!" said Uncle Wiggily. "I guess that milkman must be lost. What can I do? Ah, I have it!" and away he hopped off toward the green fields.
A year went by. I was back in the office and prospering in all ways even getting a bit fat. And then Steve arrived. He didn't look me up. I read his name in the steamer list, and wondered why. But I didn't wonder long. I got up one morning and found that Spot chained to the gatepost and holding up the milkman. Steve went north to Seattle, I learned, that very morning.
This, however, did not last long, for on the arrival of the milkman the volume was replaced, and it was necessary to make preparations for tea. The hackney coach drove up to the house in Rosoman Street where Zachariah dwelt on the first floor. He was too weak to go upstairs by himself, and he and his friend therefore walked into the front room together.
'In addition to which, my dear, her husband urged, 'if you have no place to put two young persons into 'Pardon me, Mrs Wilfer again interposed; 'they were not young persons. Two young ladies of the highest respectability. Tell your father, Bella, whether the milkman said so. 'My dear, it is the same thing. 'No it is not, said Mrs Wilfer, with the same impressive monotony. 'Pardon me!
Another soldier came to bring us milk, and I asked Jack who was the milkman, and he said, blessed if he knew; I learned, afterwards, that the soldiers roped some of the wild Texas cows that were kept in one of the Government corrals, and tied them securely to keep them from kicking; then milked them, and the milk was divided up among the officers' families, according to rank.
"I thought he would be mad as a hornet," whispered Billy Bunny to his rabbit uncle. "But where's my horse?" said the milkman when he reached the ground. So they all looked around and everywhere else, but they couldn't find him until they looked up into another weeping willow tree. And there was the poor horse high up in the branches.
If I am in doubt, and there is no husband, brother, or cousin near, from whom to seek advice, I instinctively ask the butler or the coachman rather than a female friend; also, when a female friend has consulted the Bradshaw in my behalf, I slip out and seek confirmation from the butcher's boy or the milkman.
I heard the sparrows chirping on the sills outside; I heard the milkman rattling his cans; I heard the bells of a neighbouring church ringing for early communion. I closed my eyes and held my breath and listened to the sounds in my own room. Her breathing ain't a-goin' now." Then I turned and saw the nurse sitting before the fire with something on her lap. I knew what it was.
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