Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

AtalSy LdhS SOOU care Vi HGfs an SMELL
pay you well. There amt none of her
breed in these parts r
Sc loved the pretty thing from the
minute / felt she was my very own, an
/ put my arm about her neck an kissed,
foolish-like, the star on her forehead.
Twas the first thing I'd ever owned, an
she was SO uncommon nicei
" Father, he grumbied at hevin' an
extra animal to feed, fur hay he'd been
but poor crop, OWN to dry spell, an
corn made but poor shown: but /
was SO Cushioned to his fault-fndin',
I'd bin surprised if he hadn't an grum-
bin, tho wearisome, breaks no bones.
Well, grew, an Daisy grew. MY
brothers were always good and gentle to
her, because they knew what store / sot
by her, an before knew it, hardly, [
was big girl goin' on seventeen, goin
out into company, fur young folks here
in Jersey always kept company early,
an Daisy was COW with her own little
red calf trottin' alongside her.
''Sich a pretty COW as she was, an SO
uncommon good! She was fair sized,
though of sn1allish build. with short
horns, an' when her new coat came on,
as sleek as she we'll could be.
CAS- to good temper, ] never did see
sich docile crittur. q / could milk her
both sides, an child could hang onto
her legs without her movin'. Put her
into lot with only low rail an she'd
never Jump over, but stay contented.
However, her milk-givin' = that was
the prime thiDgl It was out of the
common, the richness of her milk. /
used to brag, an say twas all cream.
made fourteen pounds of butter week
from her-and such butter! Just as yell
low as buttercups an dandelions. But
ter as made you think of pasture-f fields,
knee-deep In red and white clover, with
rtlnnin' water gurglin' through. Such
butter as some folks live an die without
a sight of f.
"Twas human natur to brag about
Daisy. l couldn't help it, / was so
proud of her!
esquire FELTON, dropped in often, an
always began talkin' about her. The
squire was pretty rich for these parts.
He had a big farm and kept it up good.
Fences IN repair, land all under cultiya-
ton except the woodland, and that
turned out to be a mint of money when a
chair factory was started at the mills.
He bad good horses-sleek as oil-an'
fairly good COWS; but none that could
come UP to Daisy.
"Now, to my thinkin', the squire was
sort of an Ahab-not in all ways O
course, but [ mean in bis covetin'.
Ahab wanted Naboth's vineyard so bad,
you know, that he couldn't be easy
without it, an jist after that fashion the
squire wanted Daisy.
Now, Hitty, how many pound of
butter has that leetle COW o. yourn made
this week?" he'd ask.
"' Jist fourteen pound an half of
such butter as would make your mouth
water to see,' [ says to him one day,
proud as peacock.
"' Now you don't say $50 ?
'That was a way he had of tackin' so
on to the end of his words.
"'Now, Kitty, says he, wipin' his
bald head, they do say as how you an
Simon are keepin' pretty steady com
pany. You'll be wantin' fine weddin'-
gown sure. Now, you let me hev Daisy
fur fifty dollars an you can git a good
settin' out for't-sor
You must spend considerable time
talkin' bout your neighbors to find out
SO much. says /, vexed enough; for
twas known old FELTON, was a regular
Paul Pry. Now, squire, you've asked
me before to sell my cow, but say once
an fur all, I will not sell Daisy. I'll
keep her as long as she lives
&c He LATED, kind of smooth chuckle:
but he looked black enough. He was
an oily sort of man, but jist stand in his
way once, and it didn't take much to see
the smoOthness was just veneer.
ed always claimed Daisy for my
own, an nobody home had gainsaid me.
The boys an mother always spoke of
her as Hitty's COW, an it Civ me
troubled feelin' when father says one
evening:
tive had a wonderful offer to-day,
The old squire said he'd give SEVENTY
five dollars fur my leetle cow
The squire won't get a1ay Daisyr I
cried, my voice all of tremble. I've
told him I won't sell her. It's just
wicked of him to be comm round askin'
you? Then [ began to cry, I was SO
worried.
" Father lighted his pipe without say
ing word. He never talked over what
he meant to do.
[ was worried an miserable for
several days. 1 knew seventy-fve dol
lars was an uncommon price fow COW.
an I knew fathers hankerin' after
gettin'. But when the week had gone.
an nothin' more bin heard about the
squire's offer, | began to breathe freer
an think mebbe I'd made myself miser-
able fur 1lOthin'
:" Saturday night I went early to
bring up the COWS. I always enioyed
goin' down to the pasture. 1 always was
regular country body, fond of trees an
rocks an grass an brooks an plenty of
sky stretchin' overhead, an I Just liked
follerin' the cow-path that never ran
straight, an stoppin' on the planks to
look down into the brook that was so
clear, you could see the stones on the
bottom an the minnows fashin' here an
there.
cit he'd bin nice day, clear an
bright an bracin' outside, an smooth
an pleasant in the house. We he'd got
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