The recent post on the telephone design of 1915 brought to mind the story of the bull who came into the kitchen to use the phone.
The story starts on page 4 of John Gould’s 1942 collection Farmer Takes a Wife.
Lo and behold, the Internet Archive has it available for borrowing right here. Once you have an account set up, you can borrow it for an hour at a time for any number of times.
The time of year approaches when it is meet to read certain parts of this volume aloud at supper dessert. For example, the Samoset story, which starts on page 24, is for Thanksgiving.
Thanks, doclor, for the heads-up on Internet Archive,and thanks JW for the old-time phone vid.