
“I knew from the very first that some day there would be a cow here. One of the first things that turned up when we bought the place was a milking stool, an old one, handmade, smooth with the wax finish which only the seat of an honest man’s breeches can give to wood.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Getting Ready for a Cow,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 315.
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category: beautiful description, cow, farm, tool, wax, wood, worn smooth
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in September 1942.


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