The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-01-19

nit himself definitely then and there
but said he might write later al
though he did give the boys some en- !
cOuragement By saying that the num-
Der Of a cow teeth depended large /
81 on the age OF the COW; that one
of Ed Smiths COWS had tried TO bite
him once and that it would be well
if that particular breed could be muz-
Lled for a while; that Fletcher's mar
bic cows anS Bert's lumber cows all
ate out Of his hand.
Charlie Gates had nothing 10 say
as usual save that later, if agreeable
to Olin, and if the people demanded
il, he might come TO think that every
COW had, or ought TO have, teeth
enough TO chew her own cud.
Having thus cleaned what sympa-
thy and knowledge they could from
the would-be governors they turned
TO those who. like Matthew of old
would sit in the seat of customs Bro
SOuthwick of the Free Press after
/ much persuasion, and after being as
sured that the question was not in
the nature of a trap set for him by
! the willy Joe Aud finally admitted
that he had once seen a COW at a cir
Gus; that it was eating peanuts with
\ its bill and therefore he had not,beeh
led to believe that COWS had teeth at
all except milk teeth, but he said he
was greatly interested in the subject
and that if he could be collector for
a while he would buy a nice yoke OF
| oil hrTal 20 .esrhf ~ h.
next horse-shedding contest held I'M
der the auspices of the dairymen's as
sociation.
When Judge Darling heard what
Brother Southwick's position was he
boldly announced that while in Wash
ington with Teddy, he had come TO
believe that nothing could have too
many teeth, particularly for COWS,
was an infant industry and, like can.
didates for acknowledgements
should be encouraged and protected;
and through some strange oversight
the Payne Aldrich bill was deficient
in this respect but that he had taken
it upon himself to personally inspect
the upper teeth of all Canadian cows
seeking United States citizenship and
had rigidly excluded all those not
fully equipped with mastlcating APP
paratus and should continue the pol
icy If continued in office. Further
than this he declined to be quoted.
Having made but little progress
thus far the three wise men from the
East then followed their star of hope
until il led them to Senator Lewis.
He quickly told them that during a
long pastorate in Avery's Gore he
had often been called in a purely
ministerial capacity to perform the
spiritual duties of a veterinary that
the knowledge he had thus acquired
was entirely professional and there
fore he was not at liberty to impart
it,
They then turned to Joe Flint but
he was armed and equipped with a
set of Dave Fosters speeches on
Washington school maams and. as
he handed each of the boys a copy he
simply advised that they read the
same for in his opinion any one OF
the speeches contained all that any
three man ought to know
Smith Ballard merely remarked
that he thought every farmer ought
to keep a camel while Bro. Annis
said that there was no use in supply
ing COW with teeth that COW
was not, per Sc, in politics and could
never expect to be obliged TO feed al
the public crib.
And so Leland and Kidder and Glib
son, our worthy triumyirate of would
be acknowledgements returned
home with differences unsettled tc
study cOw-ology while awaiting devel
opments; and each seemingly as fully
prepared as other candidates for
other offices to announce his position
on the issues that have so far been
raised in this campaign and all
which can well be expressed by a
correct answer to the question, How
many upper teeth has a COW -
e Springfield Reporter