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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken

leg of a meadow lark.

It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut comers.

Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and
plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder

and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.

“Somebody who’d bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of
sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and the reply, with smiling

eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life ‘doing what dad

does.”’ So God made a farmer.

Definition of a Cow

* Author Unknown*

“A cow is an automatic milk manufacturing machine. It is encased in
untanned leather, mounted on 4 moveable supports, one on each comer.

The front end contains a cutting and grinding mechanism as well as light
sensors, an air inlet and an exhaust, a bumper and a foghorn.

At the rear is a dispensing apparatus and an automatic fly swatter.

The central portion houses a hydro chemical conversion plant which is

connected in series by four fermentation and storage tanks.

This section also contains the heating plant, automatic temperature

controls and main ventilating systems.

In brief, the extremely visible features are: 2 lookers, 2 hookers, 4

stander uppers, 4 hanger downers, and a swishee wishee.”

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