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Then how do you ’count fer it that when I tried milkin’ fer you a long time ago the ole cow kicked so I couldn’t? She seemed to know it wusn’t a man’s job!

She had room to kick. You pinched her teats to make her!

Lord forgive you, Meg! How’d you ever come to think a thing like that?

I didn’t think it. I hyeard you a-braggin’ about it to Sid one day when you thought I wusn’t a-listenin’.

That’s the trouble ’ith women these days: they’ve been a-listenin’ to men’s talk till they’ve got too smart fer comfort! If they keep on, I dunno how men are a-goin’ to live ’ith the next generation of ’em!

I dunno’s I’d live ’ith one that pinched my cow to keep from milkin’ her.

Then you’d better warn Sid as soon as you marry him, fer it ’ld be jist like him to try it!