Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-12
POOLEY'S GOOD LUCK.

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getting to be a pretty well known rural
resort; they we're what the older genera
ton in Skumpville called heightened and
the younger swell" They were rich
as mud and had no n whatever, ac-
cording to Skumpville standards.
Skumpville's lucky man-the n who
profited exceedingly, was Pooley. When
the Chelfrens first came the milk and
cream at the hotel wasn't good enough
for them, if you please. They began ask
ing around right away for a dry-fed cow
Now, that was just Pooley's luck. All
the COWS around there were out to pas
ture at that time of the year as a matter
of course-all but Pooley's. The only
reason that Pooley's wasn't was because
he had no pasture and no time to run
back and forth to get it if he had. So be
kept up that runt of q COW in a little sta
BILE at the back Of his house and fed her
baled hay and potato peelings.
Ono morning Pooley was going into
the house with a bucket of milk when
Chelfren hailed him from the front gate
and wanted to know ii he didn't have a
dry-fed COW. Pooley admitted that he
had. Then Chelfren surprised him by
asking if he could not have a quart OF
milk daily from the animal. He ex-
planned hat it was for the baby and that
his doctor considered that kind of milk
best. Then he asked to see the COW.
Well, it was not exactly a COW to be
proud of, but Chelfren apparently did
not know the difference, for the only OBJ
! lection he made was to the stable. IF
get milk from you | should want to have
a new fioor put in here" he said. Il
think the whole place should be cleaned
up and | should want the COW well cur
ried and the milking pail sterilized be-
fore milking. should insist upon SAM
tary conditions. l am willing to pay for
all this"
How much?" asked Pooley.
would $40 a week be %enough?"
That took Pooley's breath away, but
1t didn't make him lose his self-posses-
sion. He said: well. I don't know but
that would be all right for the milk, but
the new floor would be extra"
How much?" asked Chelfren, putting
mis- hand in his pocket.
Pooley said $40 without battin an eye
lid and then wished that he had said $40.
as Chelfren skinned off a $40 bill from
his roll and handed it to him. 1t cost him
about two dollars for the lumber, as a
matter of fact, and he did the work him
self in an hour. Then he inquired what
sanitary conditions were, and somebody
told him whitewash, SO he got a bucket
Of whitewash and gave the inside of the
little stable two coats.sThen he shook
down a litter of clean straw and that
COW stable looked like a parlor.
Pooley's COW and the price that he was
getting for the milk created no end of
excitement in Skumpville. Buxton, who
aad three COWS of his own, was particu-
Iarly envious. He said it was a shame
that strangers should be imposed on the
way Pooley had imposed on Chelfren.
Then he went to work and renovated and
whitewashed his stable. 1t was a much
better stable than Pooley's, too, and
when ii was finished it looked fine. Then
ne got up one OF his cows from the pas
ture and put her on a diet Of hay. Final
ly he went to Chelfren and toldhim that
he was being swindled and he could
prove it il Chelfren would call and see
his COW. Chelfren replied that if he was
being swiudled it wassnone of Buxton's
business andtulned his back on him.
Buxton never had been friendly to-
ward Pooley, but after that he couldn't
zeal his name mentioned without grind
ng his teeth. All that summer he figured
IN a way to get even. Certainly Porley
had an a~ggravating way Of grinning. In
The fall, however, there was a surprise
n store for Pooley. Buxton's Hereford
:ow, the one that he had got up from the
pasture, took the first premium at the
,ounty fair. Really, it was wonderful
he way that COW had fattened, and YET
lot so wonderful when it TRANSFERRED
hat Buxton had been feeding her on oil
lake and various other feeds.
Buxton met Pooley as he wa turning
way from an inspection of the COW.
ITS all dry feed done it," he said.
Seven months later the local paper
announced that the Chelfrens were COM
my for their usual summer stay. One
morning not long after Buxton led his
Hereford COW out into his front yard
with the blue first-premium ribbon
around her neck and tied her to a post
o which was nailed a sign with the Fol
lowing Inscription, in blue letters, on a
cream-colored ground:
s...,..,.. ....,S.,...
PASTEUFIZED AND STERILIZED
4 MILK FOR SALE.
Il DRY II BUT NOT HALF FED.
FL. THIS Is TILE COW