Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-26

| How THEY CHURN IN URUGUAY.-I
thought that had seen good many kinds
of churns before | came down here
crank-churns, dasher-churns, and "chemi-
cal churns.n But / will now describe a
mode of churning butter that will, think,
make New England folks open their
eyes.
Commonly they do not make much
butter in this country. and the settlers
here come to get along without it; but by
the time had been at the "poesta" two
or three days,I began TO want some butter
on my bread.
NJ had a herd of twenty five to thirty
cattle, which he kept for beef and among
them were number of milch cows. Ed
was hidden to set the milk for twenty
four hours; and the next morning M
told LiLado or Liz" us we called him, to
churn.
They had done such thing us 10 churn
butter before, it appears. Liz went out
and brought "a bag of rawhde about as
large us II common meal bag. How clean
it was inside, am sure | do not know;
but he turned the cream into it and noured
in new milk enouoh to ill it two-thirds
full; and then he tied it up with strong
strip of bide.
M stood with broad grin on his
face. | was already too much astonished
to make any remarks. Liz now carried
the bag out of doors, and then got his
horse Taking his ltsso off the saddle,
he made one end Of 1t fast to the cream
bag; the other end, as usual being attach
ed to ring in the saddle.
This done, he jumped on the horse and
tucked spurs to hun. Away he went, and
at the first jerk that bag went ten feet in
the air, ana fell with Squanch,close up III
the horse heels. At the next jerk it went
higher still.
He soon went out of sight, with the bag
dancing after him. Sometimes it hit down
alongside the horse, and sometimes it
struck slap on the animals rump.
M was convulsed with laughter-at
me, | suppose; for | must confess that
this upset all my previous ideas of butter
making.
In the course of twenty or thirty minutes
Liz came back, tie horse looking pretty
hot and the bag very dusty.
as mantica" Cutters Gomez said he.
Ed united the churn, and sure enough,
there was a good homely chunk of butter
in ii; and it proved to be very decent
butter too.
l asked if that was the way they always
churned, They said it was and Ed de-
clared it was ~ dale aisier than turnn' "a
crank"
So respectfully submit the method
to all our good people up north. Every
thing needed for it is sole-leather bag,
II clothes line and a horse - Youths Com
pahion
SCANDAL.-It was the saying OF an old
acquaintance of ours, when his attention
was called 10 anything that had a smack
ing Of scandal in it, Il have so much to
do that | cannot hear it. One-half my
time is taken up with my own business,
the other half with letting alone that OF
my neighbors."
How many excellent opportunities of
letting alone other peoples business
are sighted, and the world is troubled
with the interference of people with what
does not concern them Neighborhoods
are driven crazy by reports of idle or
mischievous people who watch for occa-
sions of scandal, and lose no opportunity
of making it public, regardless of its truth,
or of the injury it inflicts upon the feel
ings of others. Gossip passes for fact,
and surmse for history.