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Show A Former on a Illryrle. The New England farmer of today is much given to tho covered carriage and horse that holds his head higlL I suspect sus-pect that the reliable but somewhat de-j de-j liberate ox satisfied his ancestors. I met I otio farmer near Holyoko driving his ' cow home from the pasture on a bicycle that is, tho man was on a bicycle and the cow was ahead of him on foot, though she looked as if she would appreciate appre-ciate a bicycle, too, as ho was speeding her along on a rather lively trot. I stop-ed stop-ed him and asked him if there was any show for a farmer to make money in that section, and while tho patient cow leaned against a tree and caught her breath he replied that there was none whatever. His grandfather had made money ou the farm, he said, but he could not. Then he called to tho cow to "hump herself," her-self," and went spinning down the road with the long suffering beast making desperate efforts to keep from being run over. It occurred to me that perhaps his grandfather did not pick the stones off the farm with a bicycle and a pair of tongs. Cor. New York" Tribune. |