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we allus like to be kind of peart and neighborly to new- 

 comers." 



"Only two tits," he exclaimed, after I had told my 

 grievance, "why, sartin; Jim ripped her bag with a 

 pitchfork when he licked her last Summer, and her two 

 back tits shriveled up. *But that don't matter, anyhow; 

 you know when a man goes blind of one eye he kin 

 see doubly as well with the one that's left, and it's just 

 the same with a cow's tit, all the milk goes to the one 

 that's left, and she mHks just as much. Why, Lor 

 bless your soul, Mr. Johnson, I actually consider a one- 

 titted cow a most valuable animal, for cows' tits are 

 allers a-getting' cracked and sore and whar thars only 

 two thar ain't so many, to bother her." 



The above is a fair sample^of my experience in ranch- 

 ing. If I bought a horse it was some worthless old 

 animal, possessing every ailment and blemish that it 

 could possibly have and yet live. In fact, the whole 

 of the community, for miles around, apparently con- 

 sidered I had been placed there by a beneficent Provi- 

 dence for their especial benefit. I got tired of it, at 

 last; and, appreciating the fact that I didn't understand 

 the farming business to pursue it profitably, gave every- 

 thing away I had because everyone in the county 

 hadn't a dollar to buy with, and came back East. 



Gray's Lake is reached by the Gray's Lake Depot on 

 the Wisconsin Central Line. The lake is located a 

 short distance west of the depot. It contains some 

 fairly good fishing grounds. The best bait-casting 

 water is on the northeastern shore, just where the 

 weeds and rushes meet. The trolling ground is on the 

 northwestern portion, thence south in the deepish w.ater 

 just outside the fringe of bass weeds. 



Gray's Lake has many admirers and I know many 

 anglers that have steadily fished it for years who 

 prefer it to any of the others, but these form part of a 

 clique who habitually visit it more from the old asso- 

 ciations it embraces than from any points of excellence 

 the lake possesses. 



