He thought it must be milking time, because Johnnie Green
and old dog Spot had driven all the cows home.
XIX
WHAT THE OLD COW DID
When Sandy Chipmunk reached Farmer Green's barn he crept inside and
looked all around. He had expected to find the barn crowded with saucers
full of milk. But not a single saucer did he see. There were two long
rows of cows stabled in the barn. And Sandy noticed Farmer Green and his
boy and his hired man, each sitting on a low stool beside a cow. They
were milking the cows. But Sandy did not know it.
He began to think that Henry Skunk had played a trick on him. And he was
about to leave the barn when he turned to look at several bright tin
pails standing on the floor.
Sandy crept up to one of them and sniffed at it. He was glad that he had
done that, for he smelled _milk_. There was no mistake about it.
Sandy Chipmunk couldn't crawl up the side of the pail, it was so smooth
and slippery. So he jumped right up and stood on its edge. And looking
inside, he saw that the pail was almost full of milk. He knew then that
Henry Skunk had told the truth.
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