The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-05-02
Lincoln County Leader.
Saturday, Nay 2, 1885.
An Essay en- Butter

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effort of her life. The COW tolls
not, nteiher does she spin, yet say
unto you that Solomon in all his
glory could not successfully beat
her OH handmade, or rather milk
maid butter. This subtle joke !
have re-paperd and newly uphol-
stored for use during the winter.
Butter comes from a COW in a
liquid state. 1t is quite a trick to
win her confidence so that she will
yield it up TO a total stranger. |
once sought to woo the tactical fluid
from the milk resort of a laage
spekeled COW to whom | was a
comparative stranger. She wasn't
one OF those blooded COWS thatlook
as though they had been cut from
a sheet OF paper with a pair Of scis-
sors. She was a low COW, with
coarse instincts, born in obscurity.
Her brow was low, but she wore
her tail high and she was naughty,
oh, SO naughty. The young man
who had hitherto acquired the milk
from this COW desired one evening
to HE him away to a neigboring
village where he might trip the
light bombastic toe till the wee sma'
hours anent the twa.' Quotation
from a poet who was a poor spell
ler.) lie wanted me to milk his
large sp~eckeled, plebian COW, and l
said | would. The movement was
certainly i'll advised. l undertook
to do as l agreed, but failed.
From the moment | entered heI
stall and made a commonplace re
mark to her, | knew that our acquain-
lance could not lead to a warm at.
tachment. Somehow | felt con
strained and uneasy in her society
from the moment we met until low,
ing friends pulled me out through
the stable window and brought me
to consciousness. | shall never
undertake to milk a strange COW
again until the sign is right. Sc
far the sign has not been right.
might be sent on polar expedition
and get stranded on ar iceberg with
no other alternative but to milk a
COW or eat an old friend, but |
should hate to tackle the cow unless
the frihnd was a very old friend in
deed.
Butter is produced by expupging
the juice from a rare and costly
article known as cream. Cream
is the bead on the milk. Milk is
known AS dry and extra dry. A
good milkman will always ask you
whether you want your milk wet or
otherwise.
An old well digger named Grady
told me about going over into
Southern Indiana at one time to
dig a well for a man named With
um. Withum was said to be close.
lie was the most contiguous man
in Indiana. His wife used to skim
the milk on one side, and then turn
it over and skim the bubbles off.
1t was a constant struggle between
Withum and his wife to see which
would be the meaner. The first
day that Grady was there they had
a round ball of butter about as big
as q lemon and as hard.a Pharoh's
heart. The butter knife had a
handle that would turn every time
any one tried TO get a lick at the
butter, and the little round ball
hop over on the other side and
smile. Now and then a hired man
would reach over with his own
knife and make a slash at it, but
the butter, confident Of its own
strength, would slip ever with a
dull thud, and the man would
heave a sigh and give it up. Then
another farm hand would make a
wild dash at At, burst into tears and
quit. Finally Grady who had
watched the performance several
days, iabbed his fork down through