one or other of the beasts requesting her to turn round or stand still. The only movements were
milkers' hands up and down, and the swing
of the cows' tails. Thus
they all worked on, encompassed by the vast flat meadow which exte
slope of the valley.
"To my thinking," said the dairyman, rising suddenly from a cow he had just finished off, snatching up his three-legged stool in one hand
the other, and moving on to the next hard-yielder in his vicinity, "to my thinking,
the cows don't give down their milk today as usual. Upom
Winker begins keeping back like this, she'll not be worth milking by
midsummer."
"Tis because there's a new hand come among us," said Jonathan Kail. "I've noticed such things before."
"To be sure. It may be so. I didn't think of that."
3
Select the correct answer.
What inference can be made based on the highlighted sentence in the passage?
OA
A new milker has to be careful because a cow might get spooked and use its homs.
OB. Because Tess is present, the workers must sing to the cows.
● C. When cows get nervous, they can't be milked as easily.
OD. The new cowhand doesn't know how to use a three-legged stool to milk a cow.