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...Chrisake, I don't want to see any of those cow-milking pictures. You're not running for farmhand; you're running for President. Any Minnesota farmer can milk a cow better than you can.' And he's putting on a dignified campaign...
While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...
...spite of its age and the fact that its 145-minute mass is sometimes dragging, Oklahoma! hollers itself home as a handsome piece of entertainment. The plot, to begin with, is just about perfect for a musical: cowboy loves farmgirl, sinister farmhand menaces farmgirl, cowboy kills farmhand, cowboy weds farmgirl, everybody rides into sunset. It is as simple and innocent as a birthday cake, in which the songs are set as naturally as candles-and dazzling good songs they still...
...Dead, the reader will find a depressing Christmas party in lace-curtain Dublin; in Melville's Billy Budd, Foretopman, the hanging of a sailor aboard a British man-of-war of the Hornblower period; in Porter's Noon Wine, the madness and death of a farmhand and the suicide of a farmer in horse-and-buggy Texas; in Gogol's The Overcoat, the acquisition and loss of an overcoat by a clerk somewhere in pre-revolutionary Russia; in Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, the liberation and recovery of a hunting falcon in the garden...
Seven Up. In Graz, Austria, after swallowing seven live mice to win a 35? bet, Farmhand Johann Lugge was arrested, charged with cruelty to animals...