The Country Milkmaid

A milkmaid imagined herself breaking the hearts of all the local beaux. She would trade milk for eggs, and chickens for a knockout green gown, and then refuse her suitors with one toss of her head — like that — forgetting that she was carrying her milk churn there. Over went the churn, and her plans came to nothing.

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