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Show CALF ENTERED AN OBJECTION. Why One Milking Machine War Never Put on the Market. Invcntlvo genius peldom achieves succors at tho first attempt. A half-grown half-grown boy In Pennsylvania, who had devoted his leisure hours fur many months to the making of a milking mnch'no of his own devising, at last com 'rd It to his satisfaction and resolved lo make a trial of It. ' Without With-out 8.1) lag a word to anyone he carried car-ried his mnchlno down from the attic, whoro be had wrought patiently day after day to bring It to perfection, and took It out to the barnyard, where old Cherry, the family cow, stood placidly chowlng her cud with her big, lusty calf playing round her. A few minutes later his mother saw him trying try-ing to re-enter tho house unseen. He wns covered with dirt from hcad'to foot nnd In n slate of demoralization generally. In his hand ho was carrying car-rying something that looked llko the wreck of 11 toy battleship. "For mercy's sake, .lud," Bho exclaimed, "what have you boon doing?" "I've been (rylng my milking machine on tho cow,' he said. "Your milking machine! ma-chine! Good land! Did tho cow do all tflat to you?" "No," answered .lud. "Old Cherry would havo 'stood for It nil right. It was tho cnlf that ( or kind o' bcciucd to object to tho mnehlnc." Youth's Companion. |