"How else would you do it ?" "Well, well! and that's the way _you_ milk, is it?
I see now I didn't go about it exactly right.

Why, you know, I never had much experience at the business; I was brought up in town, and, be George, when I tackled her, I threw her over on her back and tried to milk her with a clothes-pin.

I see now I was wrong.

We live and learn, don't we ?" [Illustration: THE JUDGE'S COW] So Smith went home, and the cow remained, and the judge's man waxes stronger in experience with the mysteries of existence daily.
But the cow was not a perfect animal, after all.

Among other things, Smith assured the judge that she had a splendid appetite.