The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-12-02
A RENTED 50
SUMMER COW.
aCITY MANS EXPERIMENT WITH AN
AGRICULTURAL CONDITION.
~yEJ CAME to the country, us

\ME CAME to the country as
w usual, the lst of June" said
rhe man who hired the COW. The boy
had gotten through his examinations
garith honor-he takes after me in his
f'pndness for books-and it began to
ret warm in the city, so we started. as
casual, and landed. as usual, IN the dear
ssld place. ..
Jonathan said my wife TO me at
;sae tea table that night, we must have
.scow'
Yes l groaned, 'and | hate the
,S,other OF getting her. That isn't the
.naeanest part OF it, either. The cow mar
&rt is always bulled when want to buy
in the spring, and beared when want
I'D sell in the fall
"'Yes,' said my wife, thoughtfully,
'it.doesn't seem as slough COW could
ieteriorate SO much in four months
It's the company she keeps an
gxwered. Our hired men would de-
rloralize Satan
"'How much did you pay for that
Holsteiu last year?' ..
Sixty dollars, and ! was mighty
glad to get ten for her in September
Father said John. why don't yct
rent cow?'
"'Bright boy said l. I will,' and
did.
"Iinterviewed Farmer Haskins on the
subject first.
Well said he, 1 never did rent out
n COW, and don't know as I ever heard
of such a thing, but, seeing it's you
No, you DON'T said |. I'm not go-
iing TO have any of that nonsense. You
just forget it's me and make believe it's
your son Henry
80 'pshaw.' said the old man. I
wouldn't rent him the north side Of a
barn to store apples on, or he'd skin my
eye teeth for me. If you're going to be
him, it's no use talking to you and he
sNvent off.
We'll, / looked high and low. and a
llsI | found a COW and rented her. a
a5weet thing she was, Jersey, pretty as Il
.fdrture, and, ye turtles Of Amsterdam!
10Y she could go! I've seen her feed
pg luietly in the pasture at 90 minutes
20 nine, and looking as innocent as a
% 2lf, and at 25 minutes of ten she was
c.wo miles away in John Slocum's corn.
The first thing after breakfast | would
,,ail up the coachman.
- Lloyd, is the cow all right?' would
;AGfK.
i ~ ba ,ynnil
."N 'eep your eye on her, Lloyd.
GEon'tm ant any complaints to-day
"'All il hit. sir. I will sir
".,uoIr mn. Nour after a farmer would
-syoI,oup TO IN, front gate driving a COW
.q.rore him H., halt and look up at
rus with little tw,,. kle in his eye.
'@'Be this your criftc. Mr. Jones"
1T looks like her,'1'e. 's' CAUTIOUS
w. 'o-Iv :, think ours is 4, INC p'S-
Snre:' r.
We'll, / wish you'd find 6ut.
1'ain't yours I've got togo to Jim Baats
'1iith her. !
y wonld call up Lloyd ,.ta ask: rs
se COW in the pasture, LloyGT
Well. sir, she was till ten minutes
Ego when / took my eye off her, and
F'ert to washing the carriage with II.
'Gr"
See II she's there now.'
Lloyd would grin. /
That she amt, sir. That's her bv~
a,e post there
How do you know that's our cowT
j know her, sir. That's her sure.
We little DEVIL
Then Id pay damages and we'd nut
'P thecow. And the same scene would
'r' enacted with different farmer the
srrt day.
The corn that COW ate, the meadows
Nc 'trampled down, the gardens she
x'o1vsed over, and the miles she walked
sere, and are still. source Of mex
-1nstible wonder to me. She climbed
sse hills into Nod, she roamed down
aicken street, she waded into the res I
rvoir, she mounted Olmstead hill, &
tjuere, with glass, we deserted her out I
ned against the sky and sent Lloyd to
escue her. Whether 1t was that her
rfde revoited at being rented, not
swned, or whether she took a mis- ]
A1evous delight In tormenting US be- a
sase we hailed from the city do not c
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