CHAPTER II 

 Cows AND Courtship on the Old-time Faem 



WOULD it be termed a presumptuous folly, to 

 link together cows and courtship when con- 

 sidering love affairs on the old-time farm? It 

 does scarcely seem reasonable to expect that the 

 ting-aling a-linging of the discordant, unmusical, 

 tinkling, jangling cowbell could be made to har- 

 monize with the joyous jingle of the merry wed- 

 ding bells. And yet there does seem a not unrea- 

 sonable reasonableness in such a conjunction, 

 when all the facts are adduced. 



the favourite trysting-place 



Cows and courtship! cowbells and wedding 

 bells! Well, there's a reason — to steal a phrase 

 from the cereal man — for linking these together. 

 Of course, if you were so unfortunate as to have 

 been born anywhere else than on an old-time farm 

 the reason will have to be made clear to you. 



Perhaps you may not know that the favourite 

 meeting-place for lovers there was at the bars at 

 the end of the lane, and when the sun was sinking 

 low, and when the birds were cooing to their mates 



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