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tandem. They pulled great loads, and I did not 

 see a single balky dog; in fact, they evidently en- 

 joyed their work as much as those who pulled and 

 worked with them. One big dog barked all the 

 time, and beat the ground with his paw while he 

 was being loaded, so anxious was he to be off. 

 These dogs are probably far happier than the use- 

 less or the pampered dogs of our own country." 



You say, "But we are going into the country, as 

 much as anything else, so that we can keep our own 

 cow. I long once more to taste real milk, and to 

 have all the golden cream that we can have — free 

 of cost — placed on the table." To be sure; and 

 if you really knew what passes for milk in the city, 

 after it has become charged with bacteria, you 

 would never know how to get on without your own 

 cow. Yet, after all, the possession of a cow does not 

 imply, for a certainty, that you will know what to 

 do with such a creature. Returning to country 

 life, I found that I must either get a new sort of 

 man to do my milking, or must do the milking my- 

 self — and I accepted the latter alternative. Why 

 not milk your own cow ? Why not spend half an 

 hour in the morning in the stables, to see that ev- 

 erything is cleanly and that justice rules. In Hol- 



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