Identifier: countrylifereade00stev (find matches)
Title: Country life reader
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, Orlando John, 1869- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Country life. (from old catalog) Readers
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the farmyard pump, The frolicsome yearlings frisk and jump, While the pleasant dews are falling;—The new milch heifer is quick and shy.But the old cow waits with tranquil eye,And the white stream into the bright pail flows.When to her task the milkmaid goes. Soothingly calling: So, boss ! so, boss ! so ! so ! so !The cheerful milkmaid takes her stool.And sits and milks in the twilight cool. Saying: So, boss ! so, boss ! so ! so ! To supper at last the farmer goes.The apples are pared, the paper read, 196 COUNTRY LIFE READER The stories are told, then all to bed.Without, the crickets ceaseless songMakes shrill the silence all night long; The heavy dews are falling.The housewifes hand has turned the lock;Drowsily ticks the kitchen clock;The household sinks to deep repose,But still in sleep the farm boy goes Singing, calling: Co, boss ! CO, boss ! co! co! co!And oft the milkmaid, in her dreams,Drums in the pail with the flashing streams, Murmuring: ^So, boss ! so ! John T. Trowbridge.
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Now to her task the milkmaid goes. CLEAN HOME MILK Boys that do the milking on the farm do not realizehow filthy the milk often is when it gets to the house.Take a milk-pail from the shelf; go down to the cowbarn. There is the cow. Throw her down an armful ofhay to chew, on while you milk, brush off the stool, ruboff the cows bag with a wisp of hay if she is especiallydirty—never mind your hands or the open pail—throw astream of milk onto each palm and begin. Is there a littlehay and dust in the pail? Never mind; it will strain out.When you get through, set the pail down while you drivethe cows out to pasture. To be sure, they will raise a lotof cow-stable dust, and the smell is pretty bad in there;but if you set it outside the pigs would get into it. It isnearly school time and you have other chores to do. Takeit to the house and strain it. Mother always doubles thestrainer cloth, but it takes an awful time for it to runthrough that way. There! You said the dirt would strainout,

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