The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-07-06
now MIR. T-...- WAS CONyINCEb.

Mr.. 4. was q breeder. His name was
synonym for the choicest and best
IN his line. He was man devoted to
his family, INDUCING them in every
want possible or practicable. He
usually kept three, sometimes four, OF
his fayorite breed for family COWS, to
supply the cream and butter needed.
His vile went to Ohio onla visit and
while there became very much infat-
uated with Jersey COW, pet of one of
her sisters. Coming home, she impor.
tuned her husband to buy her a Jersey
but he told her he would be ashamed
to let the neighbors see one on his
place-that it seemed to him man
was running down pretty low in stock
when he kept Jersey. "Why," said
he. "Id rather keep a goat, for that
wouldn't look as if / were trying to
keep cow and were too poor to do
So" But his wife as he told it
plagued the life out of him" wanting
Jersey; so one day at sale some
miles distant he bought, for mere
song, a poor little runty, ill-kept Jer-
sey heller said to be with calf. He
started home with her, feeling more
and more ashamed of his purchase
the nearer he got home. Fearing to
meet some OF his bantering neighbors,
he let downsa rail fence at the lower
end of his farm and drove the animal
up through corn lows and by.lanes
till he got it into the back yard, Call
ing his wife, he said, "Mary, here is
your Jersey, but for Heavens sake,
when anyone speaks of it, tell them it
is yours and yours alone"
CAN right, John I'll keep it in the
yard with the children"
All the fall the children and the
heifer played together, she sharing
their bread and butter, they using her
for house dog, cow or anything their
fancy suggested, and growing dearer
to them each day. When winter came
on the query was, where to keep her.
One thing was certain, she must be
kept in some place where the children
could care for her, so an old woodshed
was fitted up, and "Bessie," and the
children given possession. Christmas
morning they went as usual to iced
"Bessie," but Immediately came rush
ing back, breathless with excitement,
fairly tumbling over each other to say
go mamma, papa! there's little calf
with Bessie little calf, little bit
of a calf. OIL come and see."
A few weeks latter baby brother
came to fill the cradle that had been
empty for long months (ever since the
angels had called It's last irail occu-
pant), and as the days went by all
hearts grew sick with, the fear that the
angels would soon bear little Roy
away too. The white-haired family
doctor, spying the Jersey in the yard
one day said to Mr.. T., us that young
cow giving MILK" "Yes, it has calf
it belongs to Mary and the children.
"Well, feed the baby its milk. I have
known some remarkable cases of puny
babies thriving on Jersey milk" So
"little Bessie" had tie share with Baby
Roy, IN whom improvement became
marked from the first trial.
June came. "Little Bessie" would
now eat grass, and Roy was great
big fellow, tipping the scales at twenty
pounds. Mrs. T. commenced saving
some OF Bessie's milk to try the quail
ty, not saying anything about it tt
Mr.. T. One morning at breakfast hi
remarked, cit seems to me, Mary, GU
coffee is great deal better than for
merly. OF what firm are you buyins
our coffee now" "The same one," re
Piled Mrs. T., but she smiled. Straw
berries came. Mr.. 7. said one day a
dinner, cit seems to me berries ant
cream never did taste as good as the.
do this year." Mary only smiled. Har
vest came on; the harvesters remark
ed on thesexcellent quality Of the but
ter. -FYese said Mr.. T., II have
strain OF animals that are extra butter
cows"
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