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Picketing the horse as Pinkey had taught him, he put the cow on a rope also Then he set about the perfore in it

Aht, and with this and a lard can Wallie stood for aas to whether the cow had any preference as to the side she was milked on He could not see that it would make any material difference, so he sat down on his heel on the side nearest and turned his flashlight on the spot where he wished to operate Placing his lard can on the ground where he could throw a stream into it conveniently, he used his free hand for that purpose

To his surprise, nothing happened--except that the cow stopped chewing her cud and looked at hi with his syste exactly as he had seen the hired man milk on a farm where he had once spent a entle experiments, but at the end of tenrestless For that he could not blame her His hand ached and his foot see on it

Wallie felt chagrined when he reflected that although he was a graduate of Haverford College and was bringing all his intelligence to bear upon it he was still unable to do what any hired man with an inch of forehead could accomplish with no apparent effort

Perhaps there was some trick about it--perhaps it did make a difference which side a coas ht on the other side of his Jersey

The outlook, he fancied, see

He sat down on his heel and started in energetically

It did make a difference which side one milked on--there was no doubt about it The instant he touched her she lifted her foot and with an ai but reet, planted it in the pit of Wallie's stomach with such force that thea carpet The kick knocked the breath out of him, and as he lay on his back on a clu internally and probably dying

Wallie finally got to his feet painfully and with both hands on his sto tranquilly There was murder in Wallie's eyes as he yelled at her: "Curse you! I could cut your heart out!"