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Show all ales Ai told to: ELMO FRANK E. . 4 SCOTT .', HAGAN I WATSON Right Good Butter ; VERMONT Is noted for Us maple sirup but It ought to be noted also for Its dairy products that Is, If Uncle Joe Stokes' cow had ever become well-known outside of the little town la the Green mountains where he lived. She was a mighty fine cow, but Uncle Joe had a lot of trouble with her one time or another. anoth-er. Always wandering oft somewhere, some-where, she was Just chock-full of curiosity. , One day when the door of Uncle Joe's ice house was open she strolled Into It, and when, the wind blew tlie door shut she was trapped. He didn't find her for three ,dayg, and when he did he had to put on fur mittens to milk her. . Then, blamed If she didn't give nothing but Ice rremn. ! Uncle Joe's family was getting tired of nothing but Ice cream for dessert, when finally the cow seemed to thaw out a bit. But the next day she wandered over to a marble quarry. When the men blasted out a big slab of the stone the explosion explo-sion shook her up so that for the next week she didn't give anything but butter. But fine butter It was cool and firm and bard. Then a hot spell came and Uncle Joe was afraid the butter might spoil. So he took It down to a shady nook and put It on a big stone. Up, up, up went the thermometer that day and Uncle Joe began to worry about his butter. but-ter. Finally he went dowa to look at it. "Well, sir," sayg Uncle Joe, "I found that that stone had melted and run away. But the butter was all rUnt". |