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Show IHAD FINISHED THE CHURNING. Maine Man's Work Done, But Little to Show for It. Albert Bowden, ot Orrlngton, Maine, runs a small sawmill near his t homo, and In It 13 one ot the old-fash ioned uptnd-down saws. Ho also keeps a fow cows, and It has been customary for his wlfo to do the churning while ho was engaged at the mill. . Mrs. Bowden, however, recently went on strike, and Informed her other half that ho must churn that week. He therefore took tho churn to tho mill and attached it to tho gearing of the up-and-down saw. Then ,m, he started tho water wheel, and soon had an up-to-date pleco of machinery In every parti ular. Noticing that things were moving smoothly, ho attended to some other . duties, until his attention was called to the churn by a "chug-chug," and, looking that way, he saw buttermilk spattering about, and on reaching the machlno was Just in time to see the bottom go out of tho churn and his week's butter go Into the mill pond. Ho surveyed the ruins a moment, I then went to the door, and, calling to 8. the house, said: "Wlfo, I've churned." Fi -t- |