Why did I buy the cow? Was there a cow? Had Bunch ever mentioneda cow to me? Come to think of it he hadn't and there I sometimes was cookingtrouble over a sluggy fire.

When I came to she was saying quietly, "Besides, I think I'd ratherhave a waterman than a cow. Milkmen swear a lot and cheat sometimesbut as a rule they are more trustworthy than cows, and they somewhatseldom chase anybody. Couldn't you turn the barn into a gymnasiumor something?"

"Dearie," I exclaimed, trying my level best to get a mist over my lampsso as to give her the teardrop gaze, "something keeps whispering tome, 'Sidestep that cave in the wilderness!' Something keepstelling me that a week on the farm will put a crimp in ourhappiness, and that the moment we move into a home in the tallgrass ill luck will get up and put the boots to our wedded bliss."