Free Peculiar Tales by Ron Miller Page A

Fashioned way which seems to work OK.
    Now I am old enough to help with the bleeding which is more interesting and not so much hard work though it is very boring to have to do it every day. Every morning all of the Bloods go to the bleeding barn and that is where the Bleeding is made and the blood put into big tanks. The Bloods know when it is bleeding time because the forman blows a big whistel on the roof of the barn and when the Bloods hear the big whistel they know it is time for bleeding and they all get in line and go to the bleeding barn. All of the Bloods have little stalls they have to go in that are very small so they ca’nt move much because if they moved much the needles would come out and that would maybe loose a lot of blood. So my first job is to make sure each Blood is in its stall the right way and then my job is to make sure the needles are put in the right way. They have to be just right or maybe no blood will come or maybe the Blood will get hurt and have to go to the Vet. Our farm has many many Bloods so I am not the only worker in the morning we have many many peopel who help too. Little pumps send the blood to big tanks made of glass and when they are full trucks come to empty the tanks and take the blood to the place where it is put into bottles and cartons and that is where the blood comes from that you drink every day even in the school cafiteria.
    Our Family farm is a very very big one and though it sounds concieted to say so it is almost the biggest one in the State. Our farm has almost 15000 head of Blood which is more than any other farm in the state except for another one that is only a little bit bigger. Taking care of that many Bloods can be very tricky and very hard work. Father has made a very special breed of Blood he calls Fescu’s Fancy and it is the best breed of Blood there is in the world. They make lots more blood than any other and are also very easy to take care of. They are also not so dumb as other Bloods so Father can use them to help with all sorts of chores which makes them useful besides for making blood and that also saves lots of money. They are very strong so they can pull things and lift things and carry things which would be hard and tiresome for a person to do. Mother has even trained some of the females to help around the house and it is very cute to see them kneading bread duogh or doing the laundery or carrying a tray to the dinner table. This is good Economy my Mother says because a female Blood who is nursing a young one can be put to good use until it can go back to the bleeding pens again instead of just sitting around doing nothing but suckling its young. A good Blood can understand lots and lots of words so you can tell them what to do and they can even speak too but of course they are just copying what peopel say like parrots do and do’nt really understand what they are saying.
    When I was a little girl I used to like to dress up the house Bloods in our old clothes and they would look very cute that way almost like real peopel if you did’nt know they were really Bloods and not real peopel after all. But my Mother made me stop doing that because she said it Was’nt Right though I do’nt know why because they really did look very cute.
    I wanted to write all about how Father breeds our stock but Mother said maybe I should’nt because it would’nt maybe be proper even though I think it is very interesting and Educational.
    But just because most Bloods are usually very dumb does not mean that they are not very tricky and very mischivous like cats or monkeys. They are always getting in trouble if you are’nt careful and do’nt watch them carefully. Some farmers have tried to breed a new kind of Blood that do’nt have fingers but that also messes up something so they do’nt make very good blood either. My Father told me that some scientists have tried to make Bloods that have no brains at all but it costs a lot of money and they are so hard to take care