Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — Trespassing. [ARTICLE]

Trespassing.

Inventive genius seldom achieves success at the first attempt A half grown boy In Pennsylvania, who had devoted his leisure hours for many months to the making of a milking machine of his own devising, at last completed it to his satisfaction and resolved to make a trial of it Without saying a word to any one he carried his machine down from the attic, where he had wrought patiently day after day to bring it to perfection, and took it out to the barnyard, where old Cherry, the family cow, stood placidly chewing her cud, with her big, lusty calf playing round her. A few minutes later his mother saw him trying to re-enter the house unseen. He was covered with dirt from head to foot and in a state of demoralization generally. In his hand he was carrying something that looked like the wreck of a toy battleship. “For mercy’s sake, Jud,” she exclaimed, “what have you been doing?” “I’ve been trying my milking machine on the cow,” he said. “Your milking machine? Good land! Did the cow do all that to you?” “No,” answered Jud. “Old Cherry would have stood for it air right. It was the calf that—er—kind o’ seemed to object to the machine.”—Youth’s Companion.