28 FIVE AGUES TOO MUCH. 



superior intelligence, and the like, and Biddy fled to 

 the meal-tub. She returned in ten minutes with the 

 biggest tub of mash the cow or myself had ever seen. 

 The former not Biddy, but the cow plunged her 

 nose into it nearly to the eyes, and devoured it with 

 out once pausing, and then did the like with a re 

 plenished dish. My opinion of the intelligence of 

 cows and Biddies was elevated, and I concluded cow- 

 feeding was not my specialty. With those two feeds, 

 or more properly gluts, of mash, comfort returned to 

 my household. 



About the time that these events occurred, milk 

 men had concluded that the lacteal fluid or what 

 they sold for such was scarce and valuable, and 

 they raised, the price to the rate of twelve cents a 

 quart. Our cow, which had been baptized witli the 

 name of Cushy, gave about eleven quarts daily, and 

 as the household only needed six, there was a clear 

 opening for profit to the extent of sixty cents a day. 

 Pure milk is rather a rarity by which is intimated 

 that it is not universal in the milkmen s carts in the 

 great city of New York, where that of a watery con 

 sistency and cerulean hue is more common than the 

 dull, pale opaque of the real article. In fact, it is 

 said by dairymen that milk just as it comes from the 

 cow is heating too heating for persons confined to 



