The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-16
BILL LUBKINS' CALF OF BREEDS
It is Saffron tued and May Take Prize at
Spokane fair

What you've got that saffron cali
tied up to the fence for in the blazing
sun this whole blessed morning, can't
see; not for the life Of me-" said Mrs.
Bill Lubkins last Saturday morning.
Mrs. Lubkins had emerged from the
kitchen, where she was preparing the
noon meal for the Lubkins family, as
Bill Lubkins, strolling across the yard
from the COW corral, leaned broad
and apologize shoulder against the
tottering rail of the back stoop" of
the Lubkins mansion; ten miles from
the town Of Spedinger, due south.
Mr.. Lubkins rubbed his shoulder
against the rail and spat from his mouth
fragments OF straw. He did not
directly answer his wife's remark.
She's part Holstein, and Hereford
and Jersey, and strain of Galloway"
said Mr.. Lubkins musingly. And
old Stuckel says she's Dutch Belted
along with the Holstein. There was
Guernsey too, in that old Ruth COW, as
we always allowed, even if the Spokane
Fair folks said not; and what old Ruth
was her calls got TO be. That's
reason amt it. So, she's Holstein
and"
Mrs. Lubkins screamed as the twelve
months heifer, whose coat of sad,
reddish brown had won the appellation
OF saffron, playfully kicked a loose rail
from its precarious position in the COW
corral. But Mrs. Lubkins did not
scream because Of the accident to the
fence. Her outcry was explained by
the accusing finger that she pointed at
the saffron heller.
What's that bucket of water doing
there, Bill Lubkins,' she gasped.
You mean to say you're a-washing
that calf"
She's going to the Spokane Inter
state Fair" said Mr.. Lubkins sturdily.
TO the Spokane Fair! And what
are you entering her as being-what
breed, I mean, has your fool head
picked out for that ornery calf" de-
manded Mrs. Lubkins.
That is for others, for them that's
paid for the work, to find out,
responded Mr.. Lubkins, and he winked
one eye oracularly at his wife. /
guess John Smith and Professor Nc
Donald can do some figuring up to
Spokane when the calf lands there. l
may enter her as Jersey. l haven't
made up my mind yet"
A crafty smile that was uplifting the
stubby red mustache from Bill Lub-
kins' mouth faded away as he noticed
a certain ominous indication in Mrs.
Lubkins; a certain twitching in the
muscles OF that lady's neck and tight
ening of her lips as she spoke.
You've got, down in that COW barn,
as good Herefords and Jerseys as there
is between Spedinger and Spokane, ="
said Mrs. Lubkins, with voice OF
boding calm. You wouldn't have
them today if l wasn't on hand to keep
you from trading 'em off. And let me
tell you, Bill Lubkins, those Herefords
and Jerseys is what you're a-going to
enter in the Spokane Interstate Fair,
just six OF them; and no saffron cali,
neither; nor no hogs but the pair oil
Berkshire boarS. You'll enter nothing
but what l say. You make me that
mad with your fool ideas," continued
Mrs. Lubkings IN louder and more
bitter tones, that there's no patience
left to me. Dye know what all we Of
Washington and Idaho are up against
this year,"
Dye know that Iowa is sending a
couple or three special trains OF stock
to the Skokane Fair this year, -stocE
that gets the premiums at the lows
State Fair in September. They LAND
here and stop a week to pick up the
prizes that you don't want, before they
90 on to the Seattle Fair. You coulc
have read that in the paper last night.
mo, ! couldn't" interposed Mr
Lubkins quickly. Because you wa
a-reading it right up to bed time"
And a mighty lucky thing was
said Mrs. Lubkins, acidly. Otherwis'
I couldn't know what's what today
" -.