Going Back 



know this boy was often compelled to 

 do things around the house that he 

 regarded at the time as altogether un- 

 reasonable; the most memorable of 

 all these arbitrary exercises of au- 

 thority of which he still has a distinct 

 recollection being notice given one 

 Circus-day morning that he would 

 have to "churn"! Now everybody 

 knows that in the small interior towns 

 of the days of which I write, far re- 

 moved as they were from railways, the 

 coming of a one-horse show was looked 

 forward to for weeks by every "kid" 

 in the community. We had agreed to 

 meet early at Charley Silverwood's. 

 The name is remembered because never 

 heard of anywhere else before or since. 

 If any of you ever saw a boy working 

 off energy on a dash churn that might 

 have been expended carrying water 

 to the elephant or something, you will 

 know that it was a long and tedious 

 operation to reduce good cream to but- 

 ter and buttermilk with that anti- 

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