ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 3; 
year, and under the eaves of the sanctuary, or out by the 
horse-sheds, while he munched his doughnuts of a Sunday 
noon, imparted confidentially his conjecture as to how much 
his dairy would bring him in. She, good, patient worker 
found comfort m the reputation she had won as the best 
butter and cheese maker in the country Now and then 
she turned an honest penny by being allowed a little of the 
poultry money for some extra attention to them, or by in¬ 
vesting in some prolific ewe, whose twin progeny gave her 
unexpectedly, large and fine fleeces, and savings of this* 
sort were added to the original pile. 
It is to be hoped that she met her fate and the fulfifl- 
ment of her youthful imaginings, by being chosen by some 
good and great governor of the commonwealth for a life- 
partner, and that she left her somewhat menial but worthily 
distinguished position to shine as did Lady Wentworth 
whose memory merited embalming in a poem by Long- 
It is more in accordance with the tenor of lives and 
events of that period, however, to suppose that when her 
employer’s wife succumbed to the rigors of a New England 
climate and the overwork necessary to tne spinning" and 
weaving, making and patching of garments for a house full 
of boys, and passed out of time by a sort of home con¬ 
sumption, the major domo took consolation in surveying his 
acres bethought himself of the handsome sums he had so 
long been putting into the hired girl’s purse, and his grief 
was turned into a new channel by estimating just how much 
she ought to have by this time, and he concluded it would 
be best to absorb them naturally and legally by marriage. 
Whether this catastrophy occurred, or not, whether 
she rode in her coach, or even arrived at the dignity of a 
one-hoss shay ” it behoves us not to inquire. 
It is not so much of the matron, as the maid that we 
are thinking, and why may she not be the very one of whom 
Irowbndge wrote, 
“Now to her task the milkmaid goes, 
The cattle come crowding through the gate 
Lowing, pushing, little and great; 
About the trough, by the farm-yard pump, 
