e cood have her for 35 dolars. then father he said he wood
give 35 dolars and old man Collins he said he dident know about selling
her xcept to the Hamton Falls man but if father wood give him 37 dolars
he cood give the Hamton Falls man 2 dolars if he came up and was
disapointed. so father he give old man Collins 37 dolars and we got a
roap and tide it round her horns and led her home. when we got home we
tried to get her in the barn, father he went ahead and she folowed him
in and all of a suddin she backed out lively and father came out jest
fluking, holding on to the roap and taking feerful long stradles. he
looked so mad that i dident dass to laff. well father held on like a
good feller and bimeby she stoped. then father said so so and held out
sum meal in a pail and got her in the barn and tide her to a post. then
he give her sum hay and we went in and he told mother she had beter make
sum araingments to sell sum milk for we was going to have 20 quats every
day. then mother she said if the cow gives milk like my hens lade egs
they woodent be mutch milk to sell, and father said you jest wait til
morning. then we went down to old Gechels store and father he bougt the
bigest milk pail he cood find.

May 27. brite and fair. this morning me and father got up erly and we
went out to feed the cow and i piched down the hay and father he set
down and begun to milk her, he brougt out the big pail and a little one
to use after he had filled the big one. well the ferst thing he did was
to aim a streem rite in my eye. then he milked in the pail and it made a
funy sound, well he kep milking and bimeby it stoped coming, and he
squeazed away as hard as he cood and he coodent get a drop and bimeby
he give up and said he gessed it was becaus she was in a new place and
was loansum. when we went into the house and straned it thrugh a siv
they wasent quite 2 quats. mother she laffed and asked what he had done
with the other 8 quats and father he said you wait til tonite. then he
et his brekfast and went to boston and i et mine and drove the old cow
to pasture. i found a robins nest in a pine tree and took one eg. it is
all rite to take one becaus the old bird cant count.

May 28, 186- brite and fair. last nite after super father milked the old
cow again. he only got 2 quats and a half. he was prety mad and he said
he wood get even with old man Collins sum day. tonite he met old man
Collins and he asked father if she milked esy and fath