“And I don’t mind missing this lesson,—I’ve had enough deviled crabs for one day!”
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THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL OF MILK
A milkmaid having been a Good Girl for a long Time, and Careful in her Work, her mistress gave her a Pail of New Milk all for herself.
With the Pail on her Head she tripped Gayly away to the Market, saying to Herself:
“How Happy I am! For this Milk I shall get a Shilling; and with that Shilling I shall buy Twenty of the Eggs Laid by our Neighbor’s fine Fowls. These Eggs I shall put under Mistress’s old Hen, and even if only Half of the Chicks grow up and Thrive before next Fair time comes Round, I shall be able to Sell them for a Good Guinea. Then I shall Buy me a Monte Carlo Coat and an Ermine Stole, and I will Look so Bewitching that Robin will Come Up and Offer to be Friends again. But I won’t make up Too Easily; when he Brings me Violets, I shall Toss My Head So-and—”
Here the Milkmaid gave her Head the Toss she was thinking about, and the Pail of Milk was Dislodged from its resting-Place on her Head.
But, being a Member of a Ladies’ Physical Culture Club, she Deftly Caught the Pail and Replaced It.
All Turned Out as she had planned, and when Robin married her he gave her an Electric Automobile.
Moral: